OBJECTIVE To describe preschool malnutrition prevalence and trends in Mexican children for the 1988, 1999 and 2006 Mexican National Nutrition Surveys using WHO-2006 standards and National Center for Health Statistics/WHO (NCHS/WHO) references. MATERIAL AND METHODS Prevalence of undernutrition (< minus 2 z-score for weight/age, height/age and weight/height) and overweight (> plus 2 z-score for...

Growth reference charts are among the most sensitive and valuable tools for assessing the health and development of children. A questionnaire survey was answered by 16 of the 21 ministries of health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region countries (EMR) about their use of growth charts for children under 5 years. Most of the countries (13/16) used the NCHS/WHO charts and weight-for-age was the mos...

OBJECTIVE To assess the growth pattern of children in Yazd, and compare it with standards outlined by the World Health Organisation. METHODS The cross-sectional study, which was conducted in 2009, involved 20 guidance schools of Yazd city. A total of 1921 children were chosen by simple cluster method and general demographic and anthropometric information regarding the subjects was extracted f...

OBJECTIVES Strategies to effectively identify and refer children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) to Nutritional Rehabilitation units (NRU) can reduce morbidity and mortality. METHODS From December 2011 to May 2012, we conducted a prospective study task-shifting inpatient malnutrition screening of Malawian children 6-60 months to lay-screeners and evaluated World Health Organization (WHO)...

On Oct 20, 2016, a statement appeared on the WHO website, announcing that " An independent review commissioned by WHO has found that research ethics misconduct occurred in a study on foetal growth standards. " 1 The study in question was the INTERGROWTH-21st study, led by researchers at the University of Oxford, UK, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), and reported in several j...

background: infant mortality rate is reported 3.18 in 1000 births in iran. international organizations such as world health organization (who) and united nations children's fund (unicef) consider applicable standards essential for providing effective health services in hospitals and health centers. therefore, it is essential to create national care standards for neonatal intensive care units (n...

during a historic prospective study, measurements of weight, height and head circumferences were carried out in a group of 393 tehrani boys and girls between the first and 36th month of life and measurements were plotted over the n.c.h.s. curves. these children belonged to middle and high-class literate families who were able to understand and follow the medical advice given by their private pe...

Background & Aims of the Study: Tea is one of the most important beverages that consumes in several parts of the world including Iran. Tea plant can be contaminated during manufacturing processes and growth period by pollutants such as heavy metals. In this study, the concentration of some heavy metals in different brands of both Iranian and imported black tea to Iran was inves...