The intervention is delivered by trained diagnostic radiographers at the point when the women leave the routine protection afforded by the National Health Service Breast Screening Programme and is in line with government recommended practice and complementary to the Breast Screening Programme.
Similarly, new imaging techniques of the optic disc and retinal nerve fibre (RNFL) are widely used in some clinical practices and provide complementary information.
The nutrition crisis primarily affects infants and young children under the age of two, who suffer from low birthweight, poor breastfeeding practices and inadequate complementary foods, and lack of access to basic health care services.
The National Institute of Nutrition estimates that if all families practiced appropriate breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices, Viet Nam could reduce its stunting rate of children under 5 by 26% by 2015 year and by 23% by 2020 year.
Beyond poverty, poor feeding practices – particularly suboptimal breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices for infants and young children – are the major cause of child malnutrition along with other preventable diseases.
This includes best practices in breastfeeding and complementary feeding, hygiene and safe faeces disposal.
Integrative oncology combines the best practices of conventional and complementary oncological therapy, uniting them into one, holistic concept.
Action It is estimated that reaching all infants with a package of interventions to protect, promote and support optimal infant and young child feeding practices - breastfeeding and complementary feeding - can contribute to preventing 1.4 million and 600,000 child deaths respectively, or just over a fifth of the total annual child deaths.
These practices include: breastfeeding and complementary feeding, hygiene (hand washing and safe faeces disposal) and helping to prevent malaria (through consistent use of treated nets, home management of less severe fever episodes, and through recognizing symptoms and promptly referring severe fever cases to a health facility).
In response to the situation, UNICEF, through the State Health Department, provided Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) and supplementary food for 6-59 moldhs old children along with micronutrient supplements and continued to promote young child feeding practices including breastfeeding and complementary feeding.
