Android-Based application system for monitoring baby’s growth and development

The use of Growth Chart (Kartu Menuju Sehat) all this time was conducted at Posyandu (Integrated Health Service Posts) for monitoring baby's growth and development is not effective and efficient anymore since the cadres at Posyandu only record the baby's height and weight that does not determine the nutritional status yet. Several studies on information technology to decrease the human error factors and optimum data storage has been widely developed via some applications, such as web server-based and android-based applications. This study aimed at developing an android-based application system of nutritional status assessment (NSA) for monitoring a baby's growth and development using a weight-for-age index, weight-for-height index, height-for-age index. The method for developing this android-based application was using supporting devices, such as Android Studio and Visual Studio Code, as the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and Flutter application as a unit of interface development (UI) and the development of database-driven applications, such as XAMPP software as a bundle for a web server, (Apache) and a database system (MySQL). The result of the study on designing an android-based application of nutritional status assessment at Posyandu could identify the menu of baby's nutritional status assessment and the database for digital data storage. Furthermore, all in all, the use of this application can perform based on the instruction and be used for baby's nutritional assessment at Posyandu. For further development, this application can be used for data synchronization in the programs of Posyandu at Public Health Centers.