Hubungan Status Gizi dengan Tingkat Produktivitas Pekerja Wanita di PT. Idec Abadi Wood Industries Tarakan

Factors that affect worker producktivity is the intake level of nutrient of worker who can be seen from their nutritional status. The need for workers nutrition must be in accordance with the job. A worker with a good nutritional state will have a better working capacity and endurance, on the other hand a worker with a poor nutritional state will accelerate exhaustion and this can disrupt productivity. This study aims to know the correlation of nutritional status that consists of body mass index, energi intake, protein intake, and intake of iron to the productivity of female workers in PT. Idec Abadi Wood Industries. This study uses cross sectional study design. The sample in this study was a female worker at the wholesale totaling 50 people, by measured the body mass index (BMI) and recall 24 hours. Data analysis technique used is multiple linier regression. Result from the study showed an association between nutrional status (BMI) and productivity (0,001 < 0,05), energy intake with productivity (0.008 < 0,05), intake of iron with productivity (0.045 < 0.05). And there was no significant association between protein intake and productivity (0,243 < 0,05). Companies were advised to make a special program for the monitoring process and the adequacy of nutrient intake of workers. The company needs to add medical personel especially in the field of nutrition. Dissemination of information through sosialization, posters or leflets on the pattern of balanced nutrition for workersKeywords : Productivity, Nutritional Status

Hubungan Pola Makan Pagi dengan Status Gizi pada Mahasiswi Poltekkes Kemenkes Aceh

Eating patterns can be assessed directly on the quality and quantity of the dishes. If the composition of the dishes meets the body's needs, both quantity, and quality, then the body will have health conditions as well as possible and a good nutritional state can be achieved. This research is descriptive analytic design cross-sectional. Data on the diet of the morning that includes frequency of eating breakfast, the number of breakfast and types of breakfast collected using food frequency for 7 days through the distribution of questionnaires, the Body Mass Index was collected by weighing student using digital scales and measuring the height of student use microtia. Univariate and Bivariate data analysis using chi-square statistical test. The results of 53 respondents have on the students who have the nutritional status in the category of energy deficiency (20%) have a morning meal pattern in both categories compared to the category less (12.5%), while the student-nourished in the category of obesity largely (20,0%) are also present in the diet in the morning in both categories compared with the category of less little (6,25%). In the conclusion, there is no relationship between diet and nutritional status breakfast Aceh polytechnic student Ministry of Health. Suggested that the student can maintain a normal nutritional status and achieve normal nutritional status. Keywords: Breakfast Eating patterns, nutritional status, student

Balance among calcium, magnesium and potassium levels affecting Asian Soybean Rust severity

This work aimed to analyze the effect of the variation of the proportions of calcium in relation to the contentes of magnesium and potassium in the cationic capacity of change (CCC) of the soil, seeking to propitiate the appropriate balance of bases, so that the soybean plants presented good nutritional state and had conditions of resisting to the attack of Phakopsora pachyrhizi Syd. & P. Syd. The experiment was driven in randomized blocks with eight replications and the treatments consisted of doses of Ca:Mg:K in relation to CCC of the soil being:1) without correction of the bases (original soil with 3,8%:6,6%:2,4%); 2) 35:15:5; 3) 45:15:5; 4) 55:15:5; 5) 65:15:5; 6) 75:15:5. The soybean cultivar used in the experiment was BRS 184, sowed in mud vases containing dystrophic Red Latosol (Oxisol) as substrate. The inoculation was realized in the fenologic stadium V4. The disease severity was determined through visual notes considering the percentage foliate area with visible symptoms of the disease, being calculated the Area Under Disease Progress Curve (AUDPC). The data were submitted to the variance analysis (p<0.05) and fitting to regression models. The balance among the nutrientes was analyzed being calculated the index DRIS. The contents of nutrients, the matter dry indexes (MDI) and nutritional balance index (NBI) were inserted in the program ChecarDris for obtaining of the index DRIS. The results appeared that the percentages of 55% of calcium, 15% of magnesium and 5% of potassium, increase larger nutritional balance in the soybean providing to smallest area under disease progress curve (AUDPC), reduction in the severity of the rust (%), besides increase the largest productivity.

Domestication of ruminant livestock and the impact of nematode parasites:possible implications for the reindeer industry

In a balanced ecological system, both host and nematode parasite populations are firmly controlled by a complex array of interacting factors. However domestication of livestock has tipped the balance in favour of the parasites. This is due to increasing the proportion of susceptible animals in the herd or flock (lactating females and weaned young animals), increasing stocking rate, increasing productivity demands and decreasing the movement of the animals. In contrast with microbial infections, where multiplication takes place entirely within the host, metazoan parasites have both a parasitic phase and a free-living phase. Every worm present has been separately acquired by the ingestion of free-living stages on pasture. Immunity to nematodes develops slowly, it is labile, and its maintenance is dependent upon a good nutritional state of the animal. Consequently, worm parasites are ubiquitous wherever livestock are kept and they impose a constant and often a high infectious pressure on grazing animals. Nematode infections in grazing livestock are almost always a mixture of species. All have deleterious effects and collectively lead to chronic ill thrift. Economic evaluations repeatedly show that the major losses due to parasites are on animal production, rather than on mortality. This paper focuses on the problems of nematode parasites; problems associated with drug use (anthelmintic resistance, environmental impact) and costs of nematode infections for the common ruminant livestock industries (cattle, sheep, goats), with possible analogies for the semi-domesticated reindeer industry.

Sociomedical Achievements in the People's Republic of China

The authors have had the unique opportunity of visiting China three times, in 1964, 1967, and 1971. Since liberation (a term indicating the founding of the People's Republic of China) in 1949, China has undergone metamorphoses from economic, social, and medical viewpoints. Living conditions have improved markedly. Vaccinations have eradicated common infectious diseases. Social diseases are disappearing, and venereal diseases have been eliminated. The‘ state of general hygiene is good. Recent bumper harvests help to explain the good nutritional state of children, adolescents, and adults. The mortality of infants and preschoolchildren has dropped sharply, leading to a drastic reduction in total mortality. Birth control efforts can be traced back to the middle 1950s. Late marriage and contraception are promoted, the latter including the pill, abortion, and sterilization. Since the decline of birth and death rates, the natural population increase is probably 20 per 1000. China's present population approaches 800 million. Mao Tse-tung's directive, “In medical and health work, put the stress on the rural areas,” has been upheld since the Cultural Revolution. Practitioners of traditional medicine prescribe herbs and practice acupuncture for treatment and anesthesia, methods which still await scientific evaluation. Medical education follows the same pattern as general education in that practice is given priority over theory. The organization of public health exhibits certain weaknesses, but the state of health of the population is incomparably better than in surrounding Asian countries or in China prior to liberation.

ACUTE DIARRHEA IN INFANCY

An analysis of acute diarrheas in infancy is made, based on the clinical study of two groups of patients: the first is made up of 1,505 infants who had 3,391 diarrheal episodes in a period of six years; and the second, of 199 infants who had a dysentery-like diarrhea in a period of one year's observation. Out of the 3,391 diarrheal episodes 3,020 showed an infection of parenteral origin, 210 enteral, and 161 no demonstrable infection. We consider every acute diarrhea in infancy as having an infectious origin either parenteral or caused by specifically enteric exogenous germs as well as the nonspecific intestinal flora. In the great majority of our diarrhea cases (2,060 or 60.7%) there was a coexisting metabolic impairment and this was almost general in the enteral infection group, having a mortality rate of 17%. The isolation of a specific enteric germ (salmonella, shigella) was only possible in approximately 30% in both groups, the first one with 210 cases of enteral infection, and the other of 199 children with dysentery-like diarrhea. The highest incidence of diarrhea in this country is in spring and summer seasons. Most of the affected children were previously undernourished. Postmortem examinations in fatal cases failed to show a relationship between the severity of intestinal lesions and the type and origin of the infection. Neither could we demonstrate a definite parallelism between cause and character of the diarrhea, although specific enteric infections had certain predominance of inflammatory stools (salmonella, shigella). From a diagnostic, therapeutic and prophylactic standpoint, we have indicated the importance of two main elements in any given case of diarrhea: its metabolic impairment and the infectious etiologic factor. We think neither element alone justifies the denomination and classification of acute diarrhea in infancy. The preservation of a good nutritional state and the sanitary control of food, water. sewage, etc., as well as the elimination of carriers, seem to be of the foremost prophylactic importance. In the individual case treatment should correct the metabolic impairment and infection.