One of the areas of work undertaken by SNEB members over the past several decades
that most excites me is the development of professional competencies for nutrition
educators. Competence includes “knowledge, skills, abilities, and traits,” and is
considered a key determinant of professional performance.
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Being the only professional organization focused solely on nutrition education—as
a practice, as a rich area of scholarship and research, and as a focus for policy
advocacy—itmakes sense for SNEB to be a leader in the development of nutrition education
competencies. Our highly relevant nutrition educator competencies
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provide a useful checklist for practitioners, academics making curricular decisions,
and researchers evaluating program impacts domestically and globally. They reflect
a consistent need to understand not only emerging science about diet and health and
motivations and skills needed for behavior change but also the complex and intertwined
influences that families, communities, food systems and policy on food decision-making.
Further, they are consistent with the SNEB's mission,
Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior
Nutrition Educator Competencies for Promoting Healthy Individuals, Communities, and Food Systems.
Nutrition Educator Competencies for Promoting Healthy Individuals, Communities, and Food Systems.
2016
https://www.sneb.org/clientuploads/directory/Documents/SNEB-nutrition-educator-competencies.pdf
Date accessed: February 7, 2020
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which calls on practitioners, researchers, academics, and advocates to promote equity
and support public and planetary health.Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior. About. https://www.sneb.org/about/. Accessed February 7, 2020.
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- Measuring the competence of healthcare providers. Operations Research Issue Paper 2(1).Quality Assurance (QA) Project, Bethesda, MD2001
- Nutrition Educator Competencies for Promoting Healthy Individuals, Communities, and Food Systems.2016https://www.sneb.org/clientuploads/directory/Documents/SNEB-nutrition-educator-competencies.pdfDate accessed: February 7, 2020
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- Objectives and competencies in food and nutrition education in the Brazilian undergraduate nutrition program.J Nutr Educ Behav. 2020; 52: 385-393
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