我国贫困地区婴幼儿营养改善项目的发展历程与思考

Development Process and Reflection of Nutrition Improvement of Infants in Poor Rural Areas of China

婴幼儿时期的营养状况关乎儿童期乃至成年期的健康和劳动力水平。我国自八十年代开始探索改善婴幼儿营养的方法,经过多年探索,建立了辅食营养补充品的国家标准,并免费向全国22个省(区、市)的贫困农村地区婴幼儿发放辅食营养补充品。项目实施以来,婴幼儿贫血率和生长迟缓率显著下降,其健康状况和看护人营养喂养知识水平有所提升。为彻底改变农村地区儿童营养状况,除了提高营养包服用依从性,向儿童看护人普及科学喂养知识和技能应作为工作重点。

Nutrition of infants have a meaningful and profound influence on health status of childhood and adulthood,and the labor force in the future as well. With a branch of researches in China aiming at exploring the way to improve infants’ nutrition since 1980 s,China has established the national standard of micronutrient supplements,and started to distribute micronutrient powder( MNP,or YYB in China) to infants aged 6-24-month-old living in poor rural areas in 22 provinces,municipality or autonomous regions nationwide without charge. The surveillance results show that the prevalence of anemia and stunting of 6-24-month-old children have statistically significant decreasing,as well as the lifting up of caregivers’ perception about nutritious feeding of children. To make a fundamental change of infants’ nutritional status in poor rural areas in China,besides to ramp up the compliance,it is important to popularize knowledge and skills of infant scientific feeding targeting infants’ caregivers by health education and campaigns.