WHO Child Growth Standards based on length/height, weight and age

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Mercedes de Onís · World Health Organization

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The WHO Child Growth Standards depict normal growth under optimal environmental conditions and can be used to assess children everywhere, regardless of ethnicity, socio-economic status and type of feeding.

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Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet Birth, Development, and Health Child Nutrition and Water Access

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Published in: Acta Paediatrica

Volume 95, Issue S450, pp. 76-85

DOI: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2006.tb02378.x

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WHO Child Growth Standards based on length/height, weight and age

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