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Poverty could be very detrimental to the health status of pregnant women. This study is aimed at identifying health and nutrition problems experienced by pregnant women living in poor and extreme poor situation in Yogyakarta. A total of 60 pregnant women were involved in this cross sectional study. Respondents were recruited purposively between August 2012 and April 2013. Information was collected for socio demographic data, household food insecurity, anemia and chronic energy deficiency. This study found that 56% of subjects had anemia. There were approximately 71% of the pregnant women living in food insecure situation. Consequently, they relatively had inadequate calorie and protein intake with 80% and 53% respectively. Pregnant women living in deprived situation have poor health and nutrition status. This situation might cause their children to be born with poor health status. Thus, efforts need to be directed to this group to overcome this problem.
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