Implications of adopting the WHO 2006 Child Growth Standards: case study from urban South Africa, the Birth to Twenty cohort

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) recently developed growth standards to overcome the limitations of previous references. Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the growth patterns of a cohort of children using the National Centre for Health Statistics (NCHS), the Centre for Disease...

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Main Authors: Shane A. Norris, Paula Griffiths, John M. Pettifor, David B. Dunger, Noel Cameron
Format: Default Article
Published: 2009
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Other health sciences not elsewhere classified
Growth standards
Growth references
South Africa
Urban
Children
Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/6464
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