PERBANDINGAN STATUS GIZI BALITA, DATA SUSENAS 2005 BERDASARKAN RUJUKAN HARVARD, NCHS, CDC DAN STANDAR WHO

According to the comparison of WHO curve standards in 2005 with international standards earlier, they said that the prevalence of infants who are underweight and age in the first half-year period will be increased and the prevalence of underweight children above the age of 6 months will be decreased. The aims of this study is to determine the proportion of malnutrition among children under five years between four reference standards and differences of standards (Havard, NCHS, CDC, and WHO Standards) and large of deviation by previous references to the new standards. This analysis used survey design along with comparative study. The sample of this study is children with aged 0-59 months from data SUSENAS 2005 (93.0). The data was collected such as gender, date of birth, date of weighing, and body weight. The results shows the proportion of underweight children underfive year among four references and standards is different in particular ages. In the analysis of sensitivity and specificity shows that the reference category of nutritional deviation value from CDC is lower (2.15% for males and 1.89% for females) than the other standards. The deviation values of Harvard is 8.41% for males and 4.08% for females. The deviation values of NCHS is 4.65% for males and 21.4% for females. The standard instruction of WHO as description of growth �what should be� is the best food for inf ants aged 0-6 months is only breast milk or we called exclusive breastfeeding and the further we should give additional foods after 6 months by continuing give the breastfeeding until 24 months.

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