Upaya Pencegahan dan Penanggulangan Stunting di Desa Muncanglarang, Kabupaten Tegal

Abstract

Stunting is currently one of the problems in the world, including Indonesia. According to WHO (2017), Indonesia is the third country with the highest stunting problem in the Southeast Asia region. Tegal Regency, Central Java is one of the areas in Indonesia that has a stunting problem, especially in Muncanglarang Village which has a variety of potential resources. The potential in Muncanglarang Village can be used as processed food such as supplementary feeding program (SFP) from ingredients that are easy to find in the village such as corn to make it easier for parents to provide additional food for toddlers at affordable prices. This community service activity begins with socialization, followed by demonstrations, validation, interviews, measurements, and mapping of stunting toddler locations. The result of this activity is that 20 pregnant women know about stunting and how to prevent it, mothers with toddlers know the importance of PMT and can process corn into PMT. An update on stunting data has been carried out at the puskesmas to assist the government in recording public health status. Validation was also carried out in conjunction with digital mapping to describe the location of the suspected stunted child's home using Google My Maps. The activity has achieved the goal of preventing and overcoming stunting, through providing information to pregnant women, updating and validating data and providing supplementary food.