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WHO child growth standards : head circumference-for-age, arm circumference-for-age, triceps skinfold-for-age and subscapular skinfold-for-age : methods and development
- Title
- WHO child growth standards : head circumference-for-age, arm circumference-for-age, triceps skinfold-for-age and subscapular skinfold-for-age : methods and development / World Health Organization.
- Publication
- Geneva : World Health Organization, Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, ©2007.
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- Additional Authors
- World Health Organization. Nutrition for Health and Development.
- Description
- xvii, 217 pages : illustrations; 30 cm
- Summary
- A comprehensive review of the uses and interpretation of anthropometric references undertaken by WHO in the early 1990s concluded that new growth curves were needed to replace the existing international reference. To develop new standards, a multi-country study was carried out to collect primary growth data and related information from 8440 healthy breastfed infants and young children from diverse ethnic backgrounds and cultural settings (Brazil, Ghana, India, Norway, Oman and the USA). This report presents the second set of growth standards (head circumference-for-age, arm circumference-for-age, triceps skinfold-for-age and subscapular skinfold-for-age). The standards depict normal early childhood growth under optimal environmental conditions and can be used to assess children everywhere, regardless of ethnicity, socioeconomic status and type of feeding.--Publisher's description.
- Subject
- Children > Anthropometry > Standards
- Children > Growth > Measurement > Standards
- Child development > Measurement > Standards
- Children
- Child development
- Growth
- Nutrition > Evaluation
- Anthropometry > methods
- Body Size
- Child
- Child Development
- Growth
- Nutrition Assessment
- Reference Standards
- children (people by age group)
- growth
- Child development
- Children
- Nutrition > Evaluation
- Genre/Form
- Statistics
- Statistics.
- Statistiques.
- Note
- Coordinating team: Meredes de Onis ... [et al.].
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-216).
- Contents
- Introduction -- Methodology -- Construction of the arm circumference-for-age standards -- Construction of the triceps skinfold-for-age standards -- Construction of the subscapular skinfold-for-age standards -- Computation of centiles and z-scores for head circumference-for-age, arm circumference-for-age, weight-for-age, triceps skinfold-for-age and subscapular skinfold-for-age -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
- ISBN
- 9789241547185
- 9241547189
- LCCN
- 2008374461
- OCLC
- ocn182574937
- 182574937
- SCSB-1453929
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library