WHO child growth standards in action

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 549-551

  Van Buuren, Stef ^a,b   Van Wouwe, Jacobus P ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; DEVELOPMENTAL, AGE AND GROWTH PARAMETERS; EPIGENETICS; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STANDARD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANTHROPOMETRY; FEMALE; GROWTH; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NOTE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFERENCE VALUE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 48949119119     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2007.136010     Document Type: Short Survey

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