Public Health Perspective Journal
Vol 4, No 2 (2019): August 2019

The Influencing Factor Analysis of Stunting Incidence in Children Aged 24-59 Months At Kedung Jati Village

Anmaru, Yales Yustisia Riana (Unknown)
Laksono, Budi (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
13 Jun 2019

Abstract

Stunting is a chronic nutritional problem caused by lack of nutritional intake for a long time, because of giving food that is inappropriate with needs. In 2017, around 150,8 million or 22,2% toddlers in the world were stunting. Based on data from WHO, states that Indonesia is included in the top three countries with the highest stunting prevalence in the southeast Asia, with an average from 2005-2017 reaching 36,4%. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of nutritional intake, history of infectious diseases, environmental sanitation and immunization status of stunting incidence. This study is quantitative with a cross sectional approach, and it is using simple random sampling. The analysis calculation of this study is using path analysis. The result of this study on stunting variable were nutritional intake (p value = 0,000), history of infectious diseases (p value = 0,062) then hypothesis that immunization status direct effect the incidence of stunting is Ho, means rejected.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

phpj

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Subject

Public Health

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Public Health Perspective Journal publishes original papers, reviews and short reports on all aspects of the science, philosophy, and practice of public health. It is aimed at all public health practitioners and researchers and those who manage and deliver public health services and systems. It ...