Community Nutrition

COMMUNITY NUTRITION 3 (1+2)

Lesson 9 : Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD)

Introduction

Nutritional blindness due to xeropthalmia is an important public health problem among young children in India. Epidemiological evidence indicating that Vitamin A deficiency even at subclinical level is associated with increased risk of morbidity/mortality in children has shifted the focus from xeropthalmia to systemic effects.