Pemberdayaan Perempuan Dalam Mengatasi Masalah Gizi Pada Balita di Samarinda Kalimantan Timur

Abstract

24.1 % underweight in Puskesmas Sei Kapih (Public Health Faculty and Puskesmas Kapih Sei , 2011), which is larger than underweight of East Kalimantan (12.7 o/o) (Health Research, 2010). Therefore, it needs to empower women to overcome nutritional problems of infants and toddlers in tut puskesmas, Objective of this research is to give interventions such as the establishment of a toddler infant nutrition counsellor in Puskesmas Sei Kapih, that is the concept of community empowerment-based problem-solving. Steps of intervention are starting from problem identification, making the module, and the establishment of counselling training counsellors. Also be }ldd to raise support from community leaders, health education as a means of socialization where counsellors lt has 4 modules arranged and administered in strengthening the capacity of counsellors to increase their knowledge and be able to do education and mentoring. The formation counsellor received a positive response from the public.