Stunting Prevention Strategy by Improving the Nutritional Status of Toddlers (N/D) at the Balowerti Health Center, Kediri City

Abstract

Stunting is a disorder of growth and development of children due to chronic malnutrition and recurrent infections, which is characterized by the length or height below the standard according to age, which is below –2 SD. The causes of stunting are nutritional and non-nutritional factors. The data used are secondary and primary data and USG, fishbone and SWOT methods in analyzing the problem. Several problems were found in the nutrition program, namely: low N/D achievement, low number of infants aged 6 (six) months who received exclusive breastfeeding, low number of newborns who received Early Initiation of Breastfeeding (IMD). Some of the problems in the nutrition program, namely: low achievement of N/D, low number of infants aged 6 (six) months who get exclusive breastfeeding, low number of newborns who receive Early Initiation of Breastfeeding (IMD), based on a study With the fishbone method, it was found that the root of the problem was the priority of the problem, namely the absence of a collaborative team for handling nutrition problems at the public health center (in an individual health effort team), the referral system from Integrated heatlhcare center to the public health center (for the 2T case), lack of social media for outreach (you can add Facebook). , YouTube or Tik Tok other than the existing Instagram), there is no procedure standard (SOP) in following up the 2T case findings that must be referred to the health center, and the lack of educational innovations for cadres and the target/community.