Stunting Mitigation Through Household Food Consumption Patterns in Tolitoli District, Central Sulawesi Province Y Kalaba(1*), A Lamusa(1), DN Asih(1), Erny(1), Vidyanto(2), H Kurniawan(2), M F Nurdin(1), D Safitri(1), J Y Walalangi(3)
1) Program Study Agribusiness Faculty of Agriculture, Tadulako University, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
2) Public Health Study Program, Department of Health Administration and Policy, Faculty of Public Health, Tadulako University
3) Program Study Fisheries Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Fisheries, Tadulako University, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Abstract
Improved diet is one of the factors that need attention in preventing stunting. This is because food is a source of energy for the human body, where consuming good, nutritious and sufficient food intake will improve the quality of the body^s health. The research objective was to analyze household consumption patterns in stunting locus areas. The research location was deliberately chosen in Tolitoli Regency with the consideration that, one of the 320 districts in Indonesia, it is included in the locus of handling problems of toddler growth and development disorders due to nutritional intake or stunting. Dondo sub-district was chosen as the locus of stunting sub-district with the highest stunting prevalence rate in Tolitoli district and 130 sample respondents were obtained using a probability technique that is proportional to the size of the cluster. Data analysis used household food consumption and household consumption patterns. The results obtained by respondents were in the food insecure category in terms of energy adequacy absorption and it was known that the food pattern of household expectations in terms of food consumption did not vary.
