Effectivity of Child Nutritional Status Monitoring Based on Information Technology at District Health Office, Sukoharjo Regency

The research was conducted to develop the information system model on nutritional status of child monitoring based on information technology support the plan of increasing the nutrition improvement at the District Health Office, Sukoharjo Regency. This descriptive research was carried out by implementing interview to subjects who were involved in the activity of the monitoring. Observation was also performed to two objects, namely the structure and the procedure of information. The collected data were analyzed descriptively by applying result of structure and the procedure analysis. The system development was designed by using the approach of FAST (Framework for the Application of System Techniques) and by using the tools of Data Flow Diagram and Entity Relationship Diagram. The observation to the problem, its scope and property as well as the interview with the subjects indicate that the research subjects at all levels from top managers to persons in the transactional level as well as those who are at cross section department support the development of monitoring system to the improvement of nutrition status program, and this system is reliable to mapping perform of nutrition status of child based on the category as severe malnutrition, under nutrition, normal and overweight. In the future nutrition information based on information technology has the benefits of the new system in supporting the monitoring activity toward the nutrition improvement program and it is also supports the plan.