SURVEILLANCE

OF STUNTING
Made Kristya Pitaloka Gangga Dewi
1970121089 / SGD 8
INTRODUCTION

■ Stunting is the impaired growth and development that children experience from poor
nutrition, repeated infection, and inadequate psychosocial stimulation.
■ Children are defined as stunted if their height-for-age is more than two standard
deviations below the WHO Child Growth Standards median.
Prevalence of Stunting
in The World

■ Purple : countries with the highest

prevalence of stunting (>30%) 
West & central Africa, East and
Southern Africa, South Asia
(Including Indonesia)
 STUNTING PREVALENCE IN
INDONESIA

Areas in red: the highest

prevalence of stunting in
Indonesia (>40%) —> NTT
WHAT CAUSES STUNTING?
Nutritional Surveillance
■Process of continuously monitoring nutrition problems and programs in both normal and emergency
situations

• Provide a reference for the Central

Government and Local Government
including the Nutrition Program Manager
Purpose of Nutritional
in support of the program nutrition
Surveilans
improvement
• Provide a comprehensive picture of
nutritional problems
Technical Implementation of Nutritional
Surveillance

Processing and
Data collection analysis of data Dissemination
Indicators
Stunting is not considered a public health problem if the
prevalence below 20%
Data Collection
■ Source: posyandu, Healthcare facilities
■ Data obtained from:
– Growth monitoring