Design of baby growth monitor system in the Posyandu for nutrition status analysis

Abstract

Generally, the reporting and recording a nutrition status of infants and baby, which conducted at the Posyandu, is still using the manual system. The problem in the manual system is that the local Health Office cannot monitor the status of infants at the Posyandu. Therefore to support government programs, especially in maternal and child health, an application system is needed that helps to monitor the growth and development of infants and baby. The purpose of this study is to design a system to monitor the infant and baby growth at the Posyandu for Health Office of Surabaya, which further it can be accessed online. This research method was Retrospective and perspective designed, where the development of the growth of infants and baby can be monitored and analysed for its impact. The population and samples were taken from infants and baby in the local Posyandu. The growth monitoring of infants and baby used indicators of nutritional status with the index of weight for ages (BB/U), weight for length (BB/TB), and length for ages (TB/U). In this research, the designs of baby growth monitoring system can be applied well at many Posyandu. In this study, the MySQL and PHP database system data can be integrated into other database systems to support existing reporting systems. Furthermore, this research application can be applied to monitor baby growth in the city and this country.