Authors: Sri Nurhayati ; Riani Lubis
Abstract
A health problem that needs to be addressed by national and international authorities is the issue of children’s nutritional status. In Indonesia, this problem needs serious attention from the government and the wider community. This study aims to design a monitoring model for the vulnerability of malnutrition to be used by stakeholders in overcoming malnutrition by reducing the causes. The impact that occurs due to malnutrition in children resulted in stunted growth. Therefore, information is needed to find out what are the causes of malnutrition so that it is easier to solve this problem by suppressing the factors that cause malnutrition. In this study, the method used to determine the causes of malnutrition[ vulnerability was the Topsis method by analysing the factors of malnutrition which include nutritional intake, infectious diseases, childcare patterns, household food availability, sanitation, and poverty. The results of this study were in the form of a monitoring model to determine malnutrition in children so that it can assist stakeholders in overcoming malnutrition by suppressing the factors that cause malnutrition. © 2021 School of Engineering.
Author keywords: Child’s nutritional status; Fuzzy topsis; Malnutrition factors
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