Abstract:
Child growth is the best indicator for monitoring nutritional status and health of a population. One way to measure growth is anthropometric assessment. We tried to examine the growth patterns of girls aged 5-12 years in Amban Manokwari West Papua Province. The number of children measured in body height and body weight were 221 people using the Cross-sectional method. Based on percentile growth curves, body height and body weight of girls began to increase since the age of 5 years (102.9 cm) to the age of 12 years, while the growth pattern of body mass index tend to be stationary at the age of 5-6 years, then increased according to age. The peak age of the growth rate of girls
body height tend to younger, while the peak age of growth rate of body weight was same with the American population. This indicates that skeletal and somatic maturity which faster in Amban girls were an adaptive response to environmental challenge.
