Fitting of New Standard Growth Curves of Children's Nutritional Status
Rachana Patel
Broschiertes Buch

Fitting of New Standard Growth Curves of Children's Nutritional Status

Developing Standard Growth Curves of Children's Nutritional Status for India using cross-sectional data from NFHS

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As physical structure of human body in different countries differs according to their geographical location which results dissimilar growth pattern hence need to access the nutritional aspects at national level for within country policy to identify undernourished children. The construction of child growth curves followed a careful methodological process using large cross-sectional data from National Family and Health Survey,India(1992-2006). The selection of the best statistical approach to construct the growth curves was adopted from WHO standard. The Box-Cox-power-exponential (BCPE), with cu...