The World Health Organization Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition: Methodology and applications

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 518-526

  de Onis, Mercedes ^a   Blössner, Monika ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Child growth; Global monitoring; Malnutrition; Overweight; Preschool children; Stunting; Underweight; Wasting

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DATABASE; MALNUTRITION; METHODOLOGY; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ASIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD NUTRITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH STATISTICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; OBESITY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STANDARDIZATION; STUNTING SYNDROME; UNDERWEIGHT; VALIDATION PROCESS; WASTING SYNDROME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0042886957     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyg099     Document Type: Article

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