Deteksi Dini Stunting Dengan Pengukuran Antropometri Balita Di PAUD Tunas Melati Desa Sendangsari

Abstract

Toddlers are children who have reached the age of one year or more and are more popular with the understanding of children under five years. Toddler is a general term for children aged 1-3 years (toddlers) and preschoolers (3-5 years). The period of the first 5 (five) years of a child's life is the "golden age" or "window of opportunity" in laying the foundations for a child's growth and development. As potential successors to the nation, the quality of growth and development of children under five needs to receive special and serious attention from the government, including obtaining good nutrition, stimulation of development and growth that is adequate and affordable by all quality facilities, including early detection and early intervention of developmental deviations. Therefore, parents who stimulate child development must have more knowledge about various ways of stimulating development in toddlers. One of the problems that must be solved immediately is the problem of stunting. Stunting can be assessed by measuring the human body which is known as "Anthropometry". For children in general, the BB/U index is the standard method used to measure growth.
Key words : Toddlers, Stunting