The Community Service on Counseling on the Dangers of Stunting for Toddler Growth and Development

Abstract

Stunting is a condition of failure to thrive toddlers (infants under five years old) due to chronic malnutrition and exposure to repeated infections, especially in the first 1000 days of life (HPK), namely from fetus to two-year-old child. The condition of stunting only appears after the baby is 2 years old which is indicated by the standard deviation value (SD) of the z unit (z-score) height according to age (TB / U) < -2 SD for short toddlers and <-3 elementary school for very short toddlers (Ministry of Health RI, 2016). Various factors can cause stunting in toddlers either directly or indirectly.  Some rubberistics such as social status, economy, family, family care patterns and family health care are factors that influence the incidence of stunting in toddlers (TN2PK, 2017). The incidence of stunting in 2017 in the world is 22.2% or around 150.8 million toddlers. More than half of stunted children under five in the world are from Asia 55%, while more than a third of stunted toddlers live in Africa. Of the 83.6 million stunted toddlers in Asia, the highest proportion comes from south Asia, namely 58.7% stunted toddlers and the least proportion in central Asia 0.9% stunted toddlers. Data on the prevalence of stunting toddlers collected by the World Health Organization (WHO).