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: Syarfina Rosyadah
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1. Please explain briefly about three major determinants for maternal and
child undernutrition !
There is three major determinants for maternal and child undernutrition.
The first major determinant is basic causes, this basic causes consist of
social, economic, political context, and lack of capital.
The second major determinant is underlying causes, these underying causes
are income poverty, employment, self-employment, dwelling, assets,
remittance, pensions, transfers etc. household food insecurity, inadequate
care, unhealthy household environment, and lack of health service are the
effects of this causes
The third major determinant is immediate causes,these immediate causes
are disease and inadequate dietary intake.
2. What is stunting? Explain briefly why stunting is important!
Stunting is very low height for age. It is the failure to reach ones genetic
potential for height. The definition of stunting according to the World
Health Organisation (WHO) is for the "height for age" value to be less than
two standard deviations of the WHO Child Growth Standards median.
children who have been chronically deprived of sufficient macronutrients
(fat, carbohydrates, and protein) can become stunted. The lack of nutrients
often combined with chronic infection and/or stress impacts the childs
length more than weight.
Stunted growth in children has the following public health impacts apart from the
obvious impact of shorter stature of the person affected:
Women of shorter stature have a greater risk for complications during child
birth due to their smaller pelvis, and are at risk of delivering a baby with low birth
weight
Stunted growth can even be passed on to the next generation (this is called the
"intergenerational cycle of malnutrition")
3. What is the right time to introduce the complementary feeding to infant?
The best time to introduce complemetary feeding is in six month of infant
age. From 0 to 6 months, breast milk is completely enough to fulfil energy
requirements. Theres no gap between breast milk nutrition and the energy
requirement. After 6 months, energy requirements is bigger so breast milk
no longer enough to supply the energy. The energy is very important
because the 6 rapid phase of growth very essential (0-2 years) and the
nutrition must meet the requirement. Based on the reason, the nutrion gap
need to be fulfiled by giving complementary feeding to the baby.
Please explain why fortified food should be given to young children!
Fortified food should be given to young children because to prevent macro
and micro nutrient deficiencies in children. Beside that, efforts to increase
the purchasing power requires sustainable economic development and propoor. While the results can not be expected to be seen in a short time. The
children with Micro nutrient deficiencies (KGM) in need of help today. So,
the fortified food program should be given to young children, so they can
avoid negative impacts on health Micronutrients deficiencies, intelligence
and productivity, when they mature