Kapil U, Pradhan R
Department of Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
Indian J Public Health. 1999 Jan-Mar;43(1):21-5.
Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme is the largest national programme for the promotion of the mother and child health and their development in the world. The beneficiaries include children below 6 years, pregnant and lactating mothers, and other women in the age group of 15 to 44 years. The package of services provided by the ICDS scheme includes supplementary nutrition, immunization, health check-up, referral services, nutrition and health education, and pre-school education. The distribution of iron and folic acid tablets and megadose of vitamin A is also undertaken, to prevent iron deficiency anaemia and xerophthalmia respectively. The scheme services are rendered essentially through the Anganwadi worker (AWW) at a village centre called "Anganwadi". The ICDS had led to (i) reduction in prevalence of severe grades of malnutrition and (ii) better utilization of services of national nutritional anaemia prophylaxis programme and the national programme for prevention of nutritional blindness due to vitamin A deficiency by ICDS beneficiaries. The ICDS scheme is being modified continuously to strengthen the programme.
综合儿童发展服务计划（ICDS）是世界上规模最大的促进母婴健康及其发展的国家计划。受益者包括6岁以下儿童、孕妇和哺乳期母亲以及15至44岁的其他女性。ICDS计划提供的一揽子服务包括补充营养、免疫接种、健康检查、转诊服务、营养与健康教育以及学前教育。此外，还发放铁和叶酸片以及大剂量维生素A，分别预防缺铁性贫血和干眼病。该计划的服务主要通过设在名为“安格瓦迪”的村级中心的安格瓦迪工作人员（AWW）提供。ICDS计划带来了以下成果：（i）重度营养不良患病率降低；（ii）ICDS计划的受益者更好地利用了国家营养性贫血预防计划以及预防维生素A缺乏所致营养性失明的国家计划的服务。ICDS计划正在不断修订以加强该计划。
