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Hubungan Sanitasi Lingkungan dengan Kejadian Stunting pada Balita di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Langara Kabupaten Konawe Kepulauan Tahun 2025: The Relationship Between Environmental Sanitation and The Incidence of Stunting among Toddlers in The Working Area of Langara Community Health Center, Konawe Islands Regency, 2025
Jurnal Kendari Kesehatan Masyarakat, Vol. 5 No. 3 (2026), hlm. 422–430
Abstrak
Stunting is a chronic nutritional problem characterized by a height-for-age (H/U) value <-2 SD. Environmental sanitation that does not meet the requirements has the potential to increase the incidence of infectious diseases in toddlers, thus disrupting nutrient absorption and growth. Based on data from the Langara Health Center, there were 139 cases of stunting in toddlers in the Langara Health Center working area from January to September 2025. This study aims to determine the relationship between environmental sanitation and the incidence of stunting in toddlers in the Langara Health Center working area in 2025. This research method is a quantitative design with a cross-sectional approach, with 97 toddlers as respondents and a sampling technique using proportional random sampling. The results showed that there was a relationship between clean water sources (p value = 0.000), wastewater management channels (p value = 0.008) and waste management (p value = 0.011) with the incidence of stunting in toddlers, while toilet facilities were not related (p value = 0.141) with the incidence of stunting in toddlers. The conclusion of this study is that clean water sources, wastewater management channels and waste management have a relationship with the incidence of stunting, while toilet facilities do not show a relationship with the incidence of stunting in toddlers in the Langara Community Health Center Working Area, Konawe Islands Regency in 2025