Abstract
Stunting is a growth disorder in children caused by malnutrition for a long time. The child's condition becomes shorter than normal children his age and has a delay in thinking. The incidence of stunting in Indonesia is quite high sostunting is becoming a priority health problem now. An effective strategy is needed to control stunting in Indonesia. The aim of this review was to explore the stunting management strategies to potentially implement in Indonesia.A literature review design was used to explore the stunting management strategies. Literature study of 15 articles retrieved from the journal database of Science Direct, Proquest, Scopus, and EBSCO in the last 5 years using keywords stunting, management, rural areas, and community based. Data were analyzed in tables consist of title, author, year, sample, methodology, and result. Control and preventionstunting could done through integrated nutrition interventions.Strategy Specific nutritional interventions such as providing supplementation and supplementary food plus nutritional interventions including non-health interventions, improving the family's economy, access and utilization of clean water, sanitation (especially latrines and safe septic tanks), which are urgently needed to support personal hygiene behavior and the environment . Interventions can use mother's counseling and support methods regularly by health workers by involving health cadres.Specific and sensitive intervention strategies are effective strategies within stunting control and prevention. Monitoring and evaluation of nutritional knowledge, attitudes and practices coupled with an assessment of the nutritional status and morbidity of mothers and children is also very necessary in controlling and preventing stunting in Indonesia
Highlights
Nutrition problems in Indonesia affect the quality of human resources
The articles used were taken by Science Direct, ProQuest, SAGE, Scopus, EBSCO, and Taylor and Francis within community-based, management strategies, stunting
The findings of this study showed that nutritional deficiencies can be successfully overcome at the community level through health education involving Community Health Workers (CHW) in the form of household visits, periodic monitoring of children's growth in the community, and provision of food supplements (RUTF)
Summary
Nutrition problems in Indonesia affect the quality of human resources. The threat of stunting to the quality of Indonesia's human resources is increasingly alarming. Basic Health Research (Riskesdas) in 2018 shows that as many as 30.8% of Indonesian children under five are stunted (1). This figure decreased by 6.4%, compared to Riskesdas five years before (2). The number of children with very short postures decreased by 6.4% compared to Riskesdas in 2013 at 18.0%, an increase in this proportion should not be careless (3). Because the number of short-bodied children has increased. Stunting is an indicator of chronic malnutrition caused by poor interaction of various risk factors that have taken place at least in the first 1000 days of life(4)
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