Primary Health Care and Essential Nutrition

Clinical Nutrition

Clinical nutrition centers on the prevention, diagnosis, and management of nutritional variations in patients connected to chronic diseases and conditions primarily in health care. Clinical nutrition in this sense states to the management of patients, including not only outpatients at clinics and in private practice, but also inpatients in hospitals. It integrates primarily the scientific fields of nutrition and dietetics. Furthermore, clinical nutrition aims to sustain a healthy energy balance, while also providing sufficient amounts of nutrients such as protein, vitamins, and minerals to patients.