HUBUNGAN STATUS GIZI DENGAN KEJADIAN PNEUMONIA PADA BALITA

Nutritional status is one of the factors causing pneumonia in children. More than 800,000 children under five die from pneumonia. The incidence of pneumonia in Batam City in 2018 was 242 children under five. This study aims to determine the relationship between nutritional status and the incidence of pneumonia in toddlers at the Baloi Permai Health Center, Batam City. This type of research is an analytic study with a secondary data analysis design. This study included 67 respondents aged one month - four years, with the sampling technique used random sampling. The statistical test results used chi-square. The results obtained p-value = 0.000 (<α =0.05). It shows a relationship between nutritional status and the incidence of pneumonia in children under five Years at Baloi Puskesmas Batam City in 2020. It is hoped that mothers should recognize that one of the causes of pneumonia is a lack of / poor nutritional status. Mothers with toddlers with pneumonia immediately improve their toddlers’ nutritional status, which is done by exclusive breastfeeding.