Stunting and the Future of Indonesia
Stunting and the Future of Indonesia
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Stunting
is a disorder of chronic growth in children due to lack of nutrition for a long
time. So that the child affected by stunting is shorter than the standard
height of his age. The child's short body condition is often said to be
hereditary (genetic) from both parents, so that many people only accept without
doing anything to prevent it. Even though genetics is a health determinant
factor that has the smallest effect when compared to behavioral factors, the
environment (social, economic, cultural, political), and health services. In
other words, stunting is a preventable problem. There are two things that must
be considered in the prevention of stunting, namely improvement in diet and
support from the government.
Stunting is caused by long-term
malnutrition in the first 1000 days of life from the fetus to the age of 2
years. This is caused by maternal intake during pregnancy is less nutritious
and quality, so that the nutrients received by the fetus tend to be small.
Eventually the growth in the womb starts to stunt and continues after birth.
Stunting is a child's growth
disorder, which if not handled properly will certainly affect its growth into
adulthood later. Brain and physical development in stunting toddlers is
hampered. They range from infectious diseases later on, because their immune
systems are weak. Difficulty learning. When adults are easily overweight so
they are at risk of developing various chronic diseases (diabetes, heart
disease, cancer, etc.). His cognitive abilities are weak. Easily tired and not
agile compared to other children his age. Even when they grow up, children with
short bodies will have low levels of productivity and have difficulty competing
in the world of work.
Stunting can be prevented by
ensuring health and adequate nutrition for the first 1000 days of life,
starting from the fetus to 2 years old children. It can be achieved if pregnant
women eat balanced nutritious foods, especially foods sourced from animal
protein so that the fetus is healthy and the baby is born safely. The mother
gave exclusive breastfeeding only for the first 6 months, then after that
breastfeeding was accompanied by complementary food namely MP-ASI with
sufficient amount of frequency and diversity. ASI continues to be given until
the child is 2 years old. Apart from that stunting can be prevented by living
in a clean environment so that it needs to improve environmental cleanliness.
In Indonesia the stunting rate is
quite high, which is almost 9 million or more 1/3 of Indonesian toddlers
experience editing. In southeastern ASIA only Laos, Cambodia and Timor Leste
have higher stunting rates than Indonesia. This figure causes WHO to establish
Indonesia as a country with poor nutritional status in infants and children.
So in the prevention of stunting
there is also a need for support from the government. As the government
revitalizes Posyandu as a means of nutrition education and monitoring of
toddlers' growth and development, training health workers and cadres to be able
to educate the public, giving blood tablets for pregnant women and vit A and
worm medicine for toddlers, facilitating the community to have and use healthy
latrines, and educating the public to process and store safe drinking water.
If stunting can be lowered, children
can develop normally according to their age. All of these programs are
investments that are very beneficial to the state because when children are
adults they will have high levels of productivity and be able to compete in the
workforce so that economic growth can increase.
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