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Growth chart
This document discusses the growth chart, which is used to monitor children's growth and development over time. The growth chart displays weight-for-age as the primary growth parameter. It helps identify at-risk children and inform policy and educational efforts. The World Health Organization developed a new international growth standard based on data from healthy breastfed children in multiple countries. India has adopted the WHO growth standard to monitor childhood nutrition under the National Rural Health Mission.
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Introduction to the growth chart as a basic tool for monitoring child growth and development.
Explanation of how growth charts display child growth, focusing on weight as a key metric for health monitoring.
Details on the development of WHO Child Growth Standards based on a study of 9440 healthy children across multiple countries.
Growth charts serve various purposes including monitoring, diagnostics for risk assessment, and policy-making.
India's integration of WHO growth standards into child health programs since February 2009.
The significance of weight zones in growth charts and how weight trends indicate child health issues.
Objectives to sustain children in healthy weight zones by providing care for high-risk children.
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- 2. INTRODUCTION • Called asthe road-to-health • Developed by David Morley and later modified by WHO • Displays child’s growth and development • Primarily for longitudinal follow up ( growth monitoring) • Helps to identify changes over time • The mostly used parameter in growth is weight for age. • Because weight is the most sensitive measure and it’s deviation from normal can be easily detected • Height not considered-Cos a child cannot lose height • Growth cart is a simple and inexpensive tool
- 3. WHO CHILD GROWTHSTANDARD • Developed by multicentre growth reference study(MGRS) • Conducted from 1997-2003 in Brazil Ghana India Oman and USA • Data collected from 9440 healthy breast feed infants and young children (0- 60months) • The new WHO standard adopted in 2006 • It can be used to assess children everywhere regardless of ethnicity socioeconomic status and type of feeding. • Formerly used Charts were NCHS growth chart which had notable difference from the new WHO groth chart.
- 4. USES • Growth monitoring: • Diagnostic tool : to identify high risk children • Planning and policy making : for child health care at local and central level • Educational tool: for mother to monitor • Tool for action: for health worker to intervene • Evaluation : effectiveness of corrective measures • Tool for teaching : advantage of breast feeding , effect of diarrhoea
- 5. GROWTH CHART USEDIN INDIA • India adopted the new WHO child growth standard in February 2009 • Under NATIONAL RURAL HEALTH MISSION and the ICDS
- 8. • The chartshow Normal zone Of weight for age, undernutrition( 2SD) and severely underweight zone (below 3SD) • It is the direction of growth more important than the position of dots on the line. • flattening or falling of the child’s weight curve signal growth failure which is the earliest sign of PEM and may precede clinical signs
- 9. The objective isto keep the child in normal zone by giving special care to high risk children