J-Kesmas: Jurnal Kesehatan Masyarakat (Indonesian Journal of Public Health)
Vol 8, No 1 (2021): April 2021

Risk Factor About Stunting Among Toddlers Aged 24-59 Months in Sabang City

Ramadhaniah Ramadhaniah (Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Muhammadiyah, Aceh)
Adityo Sendi (Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Muhammadiyah, Aceh)
Azwar Eddy (Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Muhammadiyah, Aceh)
Teuku Muliadi (Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Teuku Umar)



Article Info

Publish Date
14 Apr 2021

Abstract

Stunting is a difficult problem faced by all countries today. Data shows that in 2017 the stunting rate reached 22.2%, or about 150.8 million toddlers experienced stunting. In this study, we used a crossectional research design with a total sample of 1489 people. Our results showed 61.9% of toddlers suffered from stunting, 69.8% of respondents with good health care patterns, 74.6% of respondents who had a history of infectious diseases in the existing category, 58.7% of respondents with NLHB in the poor category, and 74.6%. The category of respondents to the information media that ever existed. those at risk of stunting are health patterns (p-value = 0.017), history of infectious diseases (value p = 0.020) and NLHB (value p = 0.031).

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jkesmas

Publisher

Subject

Public Health

Description

J-Kemas is a biannual scientific journal focused on issues related to public health, such as (but not limited to) health services and policy, environment and sanitation, social environment and behavior, epidemiology and biostatistics, public health practices, occupational health, child and ...