EVALUATION OF THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN: PATH OF THE GROWTH CHARTS

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  • Aline A. Ferreira

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https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2012.3786

Abstract

This paper aims to present and discuss, from the literature review, concepts related to child growth charts, emphasizing historical, methodological and anthropometric aspects. Study databases comprised PubMed, Scopus and SciELO. Manuscripts, technical books, websites, organizations, and national and international organs that addressed this topic in Portuguese, English and Spanish, in the period from 1966 to 2012, were also included. From Guarinoni, Montbeillard and other researchers, the concept of child growth gained more popular contours, especially when it came to how to quantify it and evaluate it through growth curves. Several steps were taken to arrive at current "optimal child growth curve", currently represented by references and growth patterns proposed by WHO in 2006 and 2007. Despite its widespread diffusion among countries and readings, there are critiques and re-adaptations of these curves involving local specificities and age. Faced with the new complex problems in child health in a shorter time can be generated a new proposal for standard and international reference. Paradoxically, it seems that we go little by little towards specificity: each group with its own children's growth curve.

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2013-03-10

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Ferreira, A. A. (2013). EVALUATION OF THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN: PATH OF THE GROWTH CHARTS. DEMETRA: Food, Nutrition & Health, 7(3), 191–202. https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2012.3786

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Vol. 7 No. 3 (2012)

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