Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Nutrition problems in Indonesia are multidimensional problems that are influenced by several factors including economic, education, social culture, agriculture, and health. Nutrition problems reflect economic, political, and social crises as the root causes of malnutrition. This study formulates a health promotion model to improve the nutritional status of children under five years old.
 
 METHOD: This type of research is quantitative with survey design and cross-sectional approach. 
 
 RESULT: This study produced a risk of children under five yearsexperiencing poor nutritional status with a history of illness.The risk of children under five yearsexperiencing undernourished nutritional status with strong health workers-cadre-family partnerships and strong family support. The risk of children under five years experiencing wasting nutritional status increases with a history of diarrheal disease. The risk of children under five yearsexperiencing wasting nutritional status decreases with strong health workers-cadre-family partnerships and strong family support. The risk of a child under five yearsexperiencing a stunting nutritional status increases with a history of diarrheal disease. The risk of children under five years old experiencing stunting nutritional status decreases with strong health workers-cadre-family partnerships and strong family support.
 
 CONCLUSION: Nutritional status of children under five years (malnutrition, wasting and stunting) is affected directly and indirectly through the variables of family income, mother's knowledge, attitudes towards nutrition problems, environmental sanitation, social capital, health workers-cadre-family partnerships, family support, history of diarrhea disease and mother'seducation.
Highlights
Public health problems as general in developing countries including in Indonesia are micronutrient deficiencies, especially for infants and children in the first two years of life (Eichler, Wieser, Ruthemann et al, 2012)
The risk of children under five years experiencing wasting nutritional status increases with a history of diarrheal disease
The risk of children under five years old experiencing malnourished nutritional status increases with a history of diarrhea
Summary
Public health problems as general in developing countries including in Indonesia are micronutrient deficiencies, especially for infants and children in the first two years of life (Eichler, Wieser, Ruthemann et al, 2012). Nutrition issues which are the main concern of the world today are stunting in children under five years old. Age of the first 1,000 days of life inchildren under five years old with stunting is not caused by heredity but generally by malnutrition and/or experience pain in a relatively long time. In stunting children under five years old can occur low endurance, low intelligence, and low productivity as adults. To cope with stunting in children under five years old need to be improved nutrition from the fetus in the womb, exclusive breastfeeding until the age of 6 months, and the provision of appropriate complementary food from the age of 6 months
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