A cross sectional study on the nutrition status of 101 children in pre-elementary school was carried out (52 boys and 49 girls). The age ranged from 5 years 1 month to 6 years 5 months old. The nutrition status was evaluated by WHO-NCHS criteria, 57.8 percent of the boys were wellnourished, 21.1 percent were past malnutrition, 21.1 percent were underfed, girls 63.3 percent were wellnourished, 3…
A randomized, double blind, controlled field trial was carried out to evaluate the effect of 100.000 IU vitamin A supplement to lactating mothers on duration of free from acute respiratory infection among their infants. From 6 villages in rural-coastal Java, 382 mothers were randomly assigned as vitamin A group (172 mothers) and control group (210 mothers). The infants were followed-up weekly b…
A good nutrition status in the period of infancy is an essential factor to achieve optimun growth and development. Infant feeding in some of the most important factor to have good nutritional status. A cross sectional study was conducted at Kelurahan Kayu manis to know the knowledge and infant feeding practices by interviewing the mothers. Respondents were chosen using cluster sampling. Out of …
Reproductive health influences and in turn is affected by various health aspects, namely nutrition, health status during infancy, childhood, teenage years, life, and environment. Nutritional disorder that affect the male reproductive system is discussed in the paper. Abnormal obesity may cause benign protate hyperplasia, Malnutrition can affect the size of the seminiferous tubules and the effic…
With the increased interest in promoting health of the children, the information of the size of the problem in traffic accident is important. This study is carried out descriptively to acgieve the objective mentioned above, from 1987-1994 especially in the last 5 years (1990-1994). By using secondary date from many sources, beside the population of Indonesia increases every year with the annual…
The study was conducted to know the pattern of infectious disease in hospitalized children and to know how far the hospital data reflects the pattern of disease in the community. The study was carried out descriptively. Data was collected from the medical record of hospitalized patients in the Department of child Health from 1981 until 1994. The study showed that the proportion of the infectiou…
A collodion baby born in Langsa General Hospital was reported and later was hospitalized in the Subdepartement of Perinatology, Langsa General Hospital, East Aceh. The baby was a girl, one day of age, without any history of genetic diseases in the family. The collodion membrance covered her entire baby. The disease is a rare congenital ichthyosiform dermatoses in the rated usually appearent at …
Acute pericarditis is an acute inflammation of visceral pericard, pariental or both. Acute pericarditis can be brought about by pyogenic bacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, virus and fungi. Acute pericarditis can cause percardial effusion and cardiac tamponade. Pericarditis and pericardial effusion rarely accurs in neonates (incidence below one percent). The etiology which usually bring about…