OVERVIEW OF GENERAL HEALTH STATUS IN PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS 34 MAMPANG VILLAGE, KOTAPINANG DISTRICT

Abstrak

Elementary school children with an average age of 6-12 years are in a period where various changes in growth and development will affect their health condition. Child health is very important, considering that children are the next generation of the nation who will continue the nation's struggle for the better. As an effort to ensure children's health in healthy and optimal conditions. Through the 134-group KKN work program in Mampang Village, a health examination program was carried out for children at SDN 34 Kotapinang. This study aims to find out what the health picture of students at SDN 34 Kotapinang looks like. This type of research is quantitative research. Information was collected from 119 randomly selected elementary school students who participated in a health survey. Research tools are used to find common health problems such as body mass index (BMI), nutritional status, and vision problems such as nearsightedness and color blindness. The research design used was cross-sectional. The results showed that 75% of the total students who carried out health checks at SDN 34 Mampang had good nutritional status (normal), and another 25% were overnourished status, obesity, undernutrition and even there were students with malnutrition status. 10% of children have partial color blindness, and 20% of children have abnormal eye acuity.