Reappraisal of Regional Growth Charts in the Era of WHO Growth Standards.
10.5223/pghn.2013.16.3.137
- Author:
Jin Soo MOON
1
Author Information
1. Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Children's Hospital, Seoul, Korea. mjschj@snu.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords:
World Health Organization Growth Standards;
Growth charts;
Obesity;
Underweight;
Korea
- MeSH:
Academies and Institutes;
Child;
Growth Charts;
Humans;
Infant;
Korea;
Obesity;
Thinness
- From:Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
2013;16(3):137-142
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
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Abstract:
After the WHO Growth Standards (WHOGS) was published in 2006, many countries in the world endorsed and adopted the new growth references as a standard measure for the growth of infants and young children. Certainly, the WHOGS has an impact on the global policy about obesity and underweight in children. Such WHOGS innovation has influenced many regional health authorities and academies, which have managed their own growth charts for a long time, in changing their strategies to develop and use regional growth charts. In Korea, along with the tradition to create a national growth chart every decade, we now face a new era of advancing with the WHOGS.
