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

Author(s) -

Mercedes de Onís,

Monika Blössner

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyg099

Subject(s) - malnutrition , database , environmental health , wasting , anthropometry , population , public health , raw data , developing country , medicine , overweight , psychological intervention , computer science , economic growth , obesity , nursing , pathology , psychiatry , economics , programming language , endocrinology

For decades nutritional surveys have been conducted using various definitions, indicators and reference populations to classify child malnutrition. The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition was initiated in 1986 with the objective to collect, standardize, and disseminate child anthropometric data using a standard format.

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