A cross section study on the nutritional status of 101 children in pre-elementary school was carried out (52 boys and 49 girls). The age ranged from 5 years 1 month to 6 years 5 months old. The nutritional status was evaluated by WHO-NCHS criteria, 57.8 percent of the boys were wellnourished, 21,1 percent were post malnutrion, 21.1 percent were underfed, girls 63.3 percent were wellnourished, 3…
A simple short research on the nutrition status of underfive years children of Java and Madura origin is conducted at the end of 1995 in goitre endemic area of Malang regency, East Java Province, Indonesia. The aim of this study is to depict the influence of residential health environment toward nutrition status of the two tribes and to provide local government with relevant information of this…
A cross sectional study on the nutrition status of 101 children in pre-elementary school was carried out (52 boys and 49 girls). The age ranged from 5 years 1 month to 6 years 5 months old. The nutrition status was evaluated by WHO-NCHS criteria, 57.8 percent of the boys were wellnourished, 21.1 percent were past malnutrition, 21.1 percent were underfed, girls 63.3 percent were wellnourished, 3…
A decline of mental functions in the aging brain should not be considered as a general or even necessary phenomena. On the contrary, the loss of function is usually associated with specific areas of the brain and do not necessarily affect the ordinary of life. With advancing age, the number of neurotransmitters (NT) required for the different metabolic processes will decrease like most of the o…
The purpose of this study is to get an illustration of serum prealbumin level in children and its relationship with anthropometrical nutritional status according to Gomez, Indonesia Tarwotjo-Soekirman and Depkes classifications. This study was done on 51 boys and 49 girls who were clinically healthy, aged 12 to 24 months, who visited the Growth and Development Clinics Health, Medical Faculty of…
The objectives of this study was to develop participatory action research in food and nutrition and to analyze performance of children food consumption, nutrition knowledge and attitude of mother, and nutritional status of children. The study showed that most children underfive got used to consume animal protein rich food and tofu/tempe. Level of protein intake was more than 100 percent but lev…
The objective of this study was to develop Nutrition and Health Quality Index (NHQI) and Community Live Quality Index (CLQI). Percentage of malnourished children underfive year and live expectation were selected as component of NHQI, while eight variables i.e. percentage of victim crime households, percentage employed women, malnourished children underfive year, live expectation, income per cap…