Elaboration and Validation of the Educational Material Used in Nutritional Education in the Communities of Copalacaya, Choquenaira, Callisaya, and Muruamaya, of the Providence Ingavi of the Department of La Paz 1998

• Main Author: Mercado Miranda, Maria Isabel
• Format: Others
• Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2000
• Subjects: Nutrition > Study and teaching > Bolivia; Malnutrition; Ingavi (Bolivia: Province); Educational Methods; Health and Physical Education; Life Sciences; Sociology
• Online Access: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5401; https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6400&context=etd

This work had the objective to elaborate and validate educational, graphic material to give Nutritional Education in the communities of Copalapaya, Choquenaira, Callisaya, and Muruamaya belonging to the Ingavi province. With exclusive material for the rural area and with themes directed toward women, men, and children, such material was elaborated with the participation of all the community, where each one of them they put its abilities and gave ideas to improve the material and on all requested that the drawings be as close to reality as possible. The development of the study proceeded by the following: It started with a bibliographical revision on the existing studies, and the results were: In the rural area of the Bolivian Altiplano, according to various studies carried out we find a permanent deterioration of the Nutritional State of the children and adults that is identified in a high percentage of the rural population of the communities through study that there is limited access or availability of food, intervening factors such as the under consumption of calories causing you high rates of chronic malnutrition in children under 5 years of age, the size of the family, distribution among the family of the food and inadequate consumption of food, lack of basic sanitization, lack of hygiene and quality of the food, the different levels of ingestion and nutritional value of the nutrients. One of the factors which impact the Nutritional State the most is the people's and families' knowledge of nutritional information. It is because of everything mentioned that this study responds in some part to the need of the rural settlers of Bolivian Altiplano to have knowledge on food and nutrition.