Child development

Growing children is one of the main problems of child health that many occur in the country of Indonesia today. The problem of growing the child is of course cause the impact of both direct and indirect. The immediate impact of underdeveloped child development is an increase in infant morbidity, the second indicator of childhood health, since the value of illness is a reflection of infant and underweight immune deficiency, resulting in underweight nutritional status that reduces the year his body against illness. The immediate impacts that will arise from these conditions include high rates of morbidity in infants and toddlers that can lead to infant and under-five mortality.

WHO data shows that the total number of child deaths under 5 years in 2009 was 8.1 million or 60 per 1000 live births in 2009. The infant mortality rate in Indonesia for 2010 was 151/1000 under fives, this figure is greater than with other ASEAN countries such as Malaysia 3/1000 toddlers, Thailand 11/1000 toddlers, and Vietnam 34/1000 toddlers.

The 2007 Indonesian Demographic Health Survey estimated the value of Underfive Mortality Rate of 44 per 1,000 live births. This figure is an estimate for the period of 5 years prior to the survey.

Based on the estimation of the value of AKABA at the provincial level it is seen that Lampung province has AKABA 55/1000 which is higher than other provinces such as South Sumatra province 52/1000, Riau 47/1000, and Aceh province 45/1000 balita. The impact of unbearable growth of infants is the result of the lack of awareness of parents, especially the mother in paying attention to the growth of her child. One effort to monitor child growth is to bring children regularly. In children up to the age of five years should be taken to Posyandu every month, because performed monitoring the growth of infants by way of weight measurement as the best way to assess the nutritional status of toddlers each month, so that the child's growth will be observed.