Peran Puskesmas dalam Penanganan Masalah Gizi Ganda di Indonesia

Abstract

Introduction: Currently, Indonesia is faced with multiple nutritional problems which is very worrying. Double burden nutrition is a condition that occurs in communities where malnutrition problem is still not resolved completely, while more nutrition problems have emerged. In society, the phenomenon of multiple nutritional problems occur in almost all lines of society and has the potential to degrade the quality of life of Indonesian human resources.

Methods: Multiple nutritional problems require comprehensive treatment and require collaboration across sectors to address them because of this condition, especially in children has the potential to degrade the quality of intelligence in children whose long-term impact is to lower the quality of a nation's human resources.

Result: Health centers are frontline health services in the community must take an active role in handling multiple nutritional problems that begins with community development projects for screening toddlers malnutrition and over nutrition through integrated health and further improve health promotion activities through education to the community, especially the potentially experiencing double burden nutrition.

Conclusion: The problem of multiple nutrition in Indonesia has the potential to reduce the quality of human resources so that a large role is needed for health centers to deal with the problem of multiple nutrition with cross-sectoral cooperation.