Growth charts, "curative" or "preventive"?
Open Access
- 1 May 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 52 (5) , 395-398
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.52.5.395
Abstract
The type of growth chart now bcoming widely used in developing countries is described; its objectives differ from those of the charts used by paediatricians in industrialized countries. Alternative weight standards to the Harvard have been suggested by a WHO Working Party and adopted for the chart described here. The--3 and --4 standard deviations from these standards are also available printed on plastic overlays.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Errors arising through using the Harvard tables and percentage levels of median weight-for-age in assessing nutritional status.Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1977
- Standards from birth to maturity for height, weight, height velocity, and weight velocity: British children, 1965. I.Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1966