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WHO Child Growth Standards : 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Geneva :
World Health Organization,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminaries; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Methodology; 3 Construction of the head circumference for age standards; 4 Construction of the arm circumference for age standards; 5 Construction of the triceps skinfold for age standards; 6 Construction of the subscapular skinfold for age standards; 7 Computation of centiles and z-scores for head circumference-for-age, arm circumference -for-age, triceps skinfold-for-age, subscapular skinfold-for-age; 8 Conclusion; 9 Bibliography; Appendix A Model specifications of the Who child growth standards.