Indonesian infants

Infant morbidity and mortality rates remain high in Indonesia, with acute respiratory illnesses (ARI) and diarrhea the leading two health problems in children under 5 years. We aimed to describe the nutritional status, feeding practice and case management of ARI and diarrhea of infants from two regions of Indonesia during the first 6 months of life.

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Full term infants that are disproportionately small at birth, however, may be the result of short-term insults in the third trimester, for example, that promote weight and muscle loss but spare brain and body length (Gould, 1989). These infants may have the ability to catch up in growth where the environment fulfills health and nutritional needs (Adair, 1999). In industrialized countries, access to intensive care technology influence an infant’s long-term prognosis (Dashe et al 2000), although such technology is not available to the majority of Indonesian women. ...

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