Guidelines for the Design of National Weight-for-age Growth Charts
Author : Gill Tremlett
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File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 1983
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Author : Gill Tremlett
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File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 1983
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Author : World Health Organization
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Family & Relationships
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Written to assist managers of child health programs, this publication explains the features and uses of a simple visual chart for monitoring childhood growth and detecting changes in nutritional and health status. The first part of the book introduces the basic principles and procedures for measuring changes in growth and knowing when these changes signal a deterioration in health. Highly practical information on the design and use of growth charts is presented. In order to ensure that growth charts are understood and properly used by community health workers, the book alerts program managers to specific problems of design, presentation, recording, or interpretation that should be considered when developing or adapting a chart for local use. Illustrations show a prototype chart and modified versions developed to meet special needs in India, Indonesia, Colombia, Thailand, and Brazil. The book also shows how such charts can be used for the education of mothers in appropriate feeding practices and the development of a medical history. The second part of the book offers guidelines for training health workers to use the chart. Information ranges from important points to stress when teaching weighing procedures to examples of cases where growth information might be misinterpreted. (RH)
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Anthropometry
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Author : Phyllis B. Eveleth
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 1976-12-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780521208062
Author : Robert J. Kuczmarski
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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 47,99 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Body weight
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Author : World Health Organization
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Family & Relationships
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The measurement and interpretation of growth in childhood is the most widespread assessment instrument for individual and community health and nutrition status. Current use of growth charts were assessed on an international basis in 1972. Chart requirements were defined; a prototype chart was developed, tested, and evaluated for international use. The resulting growth chart is a simple, inexpensive, and easy-to-use means of monitoring child health and nutrition in local health services. Basic health data is organized and presented for use in 1) assessing current health status; 2) projecting growth trends; 3) defining levels of care. The visual character of the chart provides the health worker with a useful, educational instrument to understand growth and development and the consequences of inadequate diet and infectious diseases. It allows greater maternal responsibilities for child care. The guide to the use of growth charts presents a model chart which can be easily adapted to lacal needs.
Author : Organisation mondiale de la santé
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2006
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ISBN : 9789241546935
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Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Medicine
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Author : Kimberly J. Parker
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Children
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This bibliography is an attempt to bring together citations from a large body of literature conserning the application of body measurements to characterize the nutritional states of children. The bibliography includes journal articles, monographs, monograph chapters, dissertations, conference papers and proceedings, and government reports in a variety of languages.
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Page : 664 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Diet and disease
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