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Background: Stunting is the impaired growth and development of children due to poor nutrition, repeated infection, and inadequate psychological stimulation. This research aims to examine the impact of maternal nutritional literacy (MNL) in increasing the height or score of a stunted child. Design and Methods: This study is a randomized control trial, which uses a sample size of 85 participants, 43 interventions and 42 controls, an 80% stress test and a 95% confidence level. The intervention group of the MNL consists of families with children under the age of five, focused on the mother’s ability to perform breastfeeding, hygiene activities, care, and intervention for 3 months. Result: The status of stunting was determined by the different distribution of stunting before and after the intervention in both the intervention and control groups. There was a decrease of about 9.3% of MNL in the intervention group, while in the control group it decreased by just 2.4% (p<0.05). Conclusions: It can be concluded that MNL has an effect in preventing stunting, and it is recommended that preventive measures should focus more on normal children, while stunted children should be provided with breastfeeding as the core of MNL. Significance for public health Preventing stunting requires an effort based on the family potential, and the nutritional literacy of the maternal is the most appropriate measure in achieving the preventive goals. This article shows that the maternal nutrition literacy interventions are very good in such a way that they become a reference for improving the nutrition and public health.

This research aims to analyse the relationship between urine mercury levels and neurological problems.Methods This research is an observational study with a cross-sectional approach. There are 44 goldsmiths in the gold jewellery small scale industry involved in this study. Urine mercury levels were measured using an atomic absorption spectrophotometer. Neurological problems were assessed by a medician. Data collected includes age, time of exposure, work duration, smoking behaviour and nutrition status of the goldsmiths which were obtained by interview.Results The results showed that the concentration of mercury in the goldsmith’s urine was around 0.93–64.59 μg/L. The analysis showed that there were 63% of goldsmiths experiencing neurological problems, such as tremors (9.1%) and knee pass reflex (6.8%). The bivariate analysis showed that there is no significant relationship between the concentration of mercury (p=0.133), age (p=0.155), time of exposure (p=0.702), time of working (p=0.354), smoking behaviour (p=0.169) and nutrition status (p=0.541) with neurological problems.Conclusions The goldsmiths who had high levels of mercury in urine samples were diagnosed with at least one of the neurological symptoms. It is recommended that the goldsmith use personal protective equipment during work such as mask, glasses and gloves.

The regular intervention package is decreasing and this is worrying about its impact on various indicators of public health in the future.9 The Gammarana project, ideally, is not the only stunting prevention intervention package, but the existence of a public health emergency due to the spread of COVID-1910, causing this project to run unbalanced with other sectors, especially sensitive and specific interventions. The evaluation study, which measures the impact of this project on stunting prevention, is believed to be useful as a learning material for the implementation of health services during the pandemic. The results of the sensitivity and specificity test of competency in anthropometric measurements show that they are eligible as enumerators 3.Results Characteristic Villages In this study, the total number of individuals analyzed was 2063 children 0-23 months. 1086 of 2062 from Gammarana group villages and 977 of 1086 from non-Gammarana group villages. All is set up to go according to schedule, based on previous research, but applying the same intervention to different conditions will yield different outcomes.18 The topic burden for each nutritionist instructor in nutritional literacy is not the same, which is a limitation of this research. Since the subject population of each village cannot be controlled in a balanced way, this is unavoidable.