WHO Child Growth Standards - Length/Height-for-age, Weight-for-age, Weight-for-length, Weight-for-height and Body Mass Index-for age : Methods and Development.

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 gro...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Editor/add. author: De Onis, Mercedes
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Geneva : World Health Organization, 2006.
Temas:
Children > Growth.
Child development.
Child Development
Enfants > Croissance.
Enfants > Développement.
Child development
Children > Growth
Children.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminaries
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Methodology
  • 3 Construction of the length height for age standards
  • 4 Construction of the weight for age standards
  • 5 Construction of the weight for length and weight for height standards
  • 6 Construction of the body mass index for age standards
  • 7 Computation of centiles and z-scores for length/height-for-age, weight-for-age, weight for length weight for height and BMI for age
  • 8 Conclusion
  • 9 Bibliography
  • Appendix A Model specifications of the WHO child growth standards.

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