Community Empowerment Through Home Industry in Improving Community Welfare in East Java, Indonesia

Prevalence of Knee OA in Karate Community in Indonesia

Background. Osteoarthritis (OA) ranks fifth in the most disabling conditions. Karate is an unarmed combat sport that uses hands and feet to deliver and block blows. The karate movements, such as high load and frequent flexion and extension of the knee, make the athletes susceptible to knee injuries and progress to knee OA (KOA). Objectives. The study aims to address the prevalence and risk fac...

Preventing diabetes through community empowerment.

Home and Community Gardens in South-East Asia

What are the problems?  Current food systems in the South-East Asian region are unsustainable in the context of both supply and demand of food.  The ‘double burden of disease’, where undernutrition and obesity coexist side-by-side, is a severe challenge in South-East Asia.  The proportion of underweight children in South-East Asia is 19 per cent, the third largest share after South Asia and ...

Can gossip change nutrition behaviour? Results of a mass media and community-based intervention trial in East Java, Indonesia.

OBJECTIVE It is unclear how best to go about improving child feeding practices. We studied the effect of a novel behaviour change intervention, Gerakan Rumpi Sehat (the Healthy Gossip Movement), on infant and young child feeding practices in peri-urban Indonesia. METHODS The pilot intervention was designed based on the principles of a new behaviour change theory, Behaviour Centred Design (BCD...

Improving sweetpotato flour quality and small-scale process efficiency through participatory action research with household enterprises in East Java, Indonesia

Previous studies have determined the potential location for sweetpotato flour processing and also examined the processing procedure necessary to produce marketable and profitably flour. This paper reports the second technical trial in which conversion rate and flour quality (i.e., whiteness and coarseness) were further investigated by selecting for sweetpotato roots with high dry matter content...