Jurnal Sains dan Kesehatan
Vol. 4 No. 3 (2022): Jurnal Sains dan Kesehatan (J. Sains Kes.)

Prevalensi Malnutrisi Balita di Desa Karimunting, Kec. Sungai Raya, Kab. Bengkayang, Provinsi Kalimantan Barat: Malnutrition Prevalence of Toddler in Karimunting Village, Sungai Raya District, Bengkayang Regency, West Kalimantan Province

Intan Aryanti (FK Unhan)
Rachma Hidana (Fakultas Kedokteran Militer, Universitas Pertahanan Republik Indonesia, Sentul, Bogor)
Yolanda Safitri (Fakultas Kedokteran Militer, Universitas Pertahanan Republik Indonesia, Sentul, Bogor)
M. Ikhsan Jufri (Fakultas Kedokteran Militer, Universitas Pertahanan Republik Indonesia, Sentul, Bogor)
Putrya Hawa (Fakultas Kedokteran Militer, Universitas Pertahanan Republik Indonesia, Sentul, Bogor)
Dwi Monik Purnamasari (Fakultas Kedokteran Militer, Universitas Pertahanan Republik Indonesia, Sentul, Bogor)
Elies Fitriani (Fakultas Kedokteran Militer, Universitas Pertahanan Republik Indonesia, Sentul, Bogor)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jun 2022

Abstract

Indonesian children are still experiencing a double burden of malnutrition, both in undernutrition and overnutrition. Based on study, there is an intergenerational effect, such as short condition of parents as a child will affect the next generation’s growth and development and will increase the risk of cognitive delay. This result of this study is expected to help and become a reference for local and national governments in order to manage strategies for handling malnutrition and to achieve national health resilience. This research is descriptive cross-sectional study with total sampling. The study used secondary data of 322 children under 5 years old from  Sungai Raya District Health Center from July-August 2021, originating from 7 unit health centre (posyandu). The data obtained in the form of age, body weight (BW), body length (BL)/height (BH) and classified according to the WHO curve (W/Age, BH/age, BW/BH) then calculate the Z score. The result showed that children under 5 yo in short and very short stature children were 13% and 19%. Children with overweight and obesity based on BW/BH in this study were 7 % and 5 %. In conclusion, there was a double burden malnutrition which exceeds the national average.

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Journal Info

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jsk

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Agriculture, Biological Sciences & Forestry Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology Health Professions Immunology & microbiology Medicine & Pharmacology

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Jurnal Sains dan Kesehatan (J. Sains. Kes) (e-ISSN 2407-6082, p-ISSN 2303-0267), is a national journal with ISSN and published four times a year in 2015. In 2016 the publishing frequency changed to twice a year. In 2021 the frequency increased to six times a year. Jurnal Sains dan Kesehatan is ...