Community Empowerment through Breastfeeding Support Group as an Effort to Improve Exclusive Breastfeeding in Batu City, East Java-Indonesia (original) (raw)

One ofHealthy Indonesia 2015vision is thatto achieve the percentage coverage of exclusive breastfeedingto 80% .Babies who are not given breast milk have a 17 times greater risk of experiencing diarrhea and 3-4 times more susceptible to ARI compared to breast-fed infants. Indonesia Demographic Health Survey showed that in 2007 there were 32% of babies who were exclusively breastfed, while in 2012 the number rose to 42%. But the number of formula milk-fed infants also increased. In East Java province, the highest coverage of exclusive breastfeeding is in Malang city with 99.93%, and Batu city has the lowest percentage with 24.50% (East Java Provincial Health Profile, 2010). Various attempts have been made to improve the coverage of exclusive breastfeeding but has yet to show the maximum results. One factor causes the problem is because there is no maximum empowerment of communities, so it is necessary to empower the community through breastfeeding support group as an effort to improve...

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