Culturally appropriate measures for monitoring child development at family and community level: A WHO collaborative study

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 283-290

  Lansdown, R G ^a,b   Goldstein, H ^a   Shah, P M ^c   Orley, J H ^c   Di, Guo ^d   Kaul, K K ^e   Kumar, V ^f   Laksanavicharn, Udom ^g   Reddy, V ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d Shanghai Institute for Pediatric Research   (China)

^e NSCB MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^f POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^g MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Thailand)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD GROWTH; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; SCREENING TEST; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THAILAND; URBAN POPULATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ASIA; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHINA; CULTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EASTERN ASIA; EVALUATION; INDIA; MEASUREMENT; MONITORING--STANDARDS; PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA; SOUTHERN ASIA; THAILAND; VALIDITY;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CULTURE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; THAILAND;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CULTURAL CONTEXT;

CHINA; INDIA;

EID: 0029669480     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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