Abstract
The 15 years experience of the database can be regarded as a success story of international collaboration in standardizing child growth data. We recommend this model for monitoring other nutritional health conditions that as yet lack comparable data.
Keywords
MalnutritionDatabaseEnvironmental healthWastingAnthropometryPopulationPublic healthRaw dataDeveloping countryMedicineOverweightPsychological interventionComputer scienceEconomic growthObesity
MeSH Terms
ChildChild DevelopmentDatabasesFactualGlobal HealthHumansInformation Storage and RetrievalMalnutritionNutrition SurveysObesityPrevalenceWorld Health Organization
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- 32
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- 4
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- 518-526
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Mercedes de Onís,
Monika Blössner
(2003).
The World Health Organization Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition: methodology and applications.
International Journal of Epidemiology
, 32
(4)
, 518-526.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyg099
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- DOI
- 10.1093/ije/dyg099
- PMID
- 12913022