The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a new pattern of child growth in which scientific data is displayed and the method or guidance should be followed for a child to grow properly. Under these new standards, all children of the world have the same growth potential, with a suitable growing conditions since birth, ensuring proper development.
Differences in children's growth to age five years depending on nutrition, feeding mode, the environment around them and health care rather than any genetic or ethnic factors.
The importance of this new pattern is to be able to determine if adequate child care with regard to nutrition, basic needs or health. In this way you can detect obesity, malnutrition or other causes of a fast and early in the life of the child.
Thanks to this new standard, says the Director General of WHO, will serve to reduce death and disease in infants and young children. The pattern is the result of intensive research that began in 1997 through a study of the Multicentre Growth at a total of 8,000 children from various countries, with a base of optimal environment for proper growth, as can be the good care health, that the mother is a smoker, and so on.
The growth chart that was used until now was the National Center for Health Statistics / WHO, presented some difficulties, as the absence of a sound basis for evaluation against international standards and norms.
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Thanks to these new standards, developed with greater consistency, criteria and guidelines can be optimally evaluate the results of breastfeeding and complementary feeding. Furthermore, this table will be essential for an improvement in the nutritional or health care to children worldwide.
WHO now calls on all countries and institutions to take this table for a greater benefit in the lives of children. Is always welcome to a new study or some new measures to ensure the welfare of children that will make world.
