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The WHO Child Growth Standards

This web site presents the WHO Child Growth Standards. These standards were developed using data collected in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study. The site presents documentation on how the physical growth curves and motor milestone windows of achievement were developed as well as application tools to support implementation of the standards.

Now available

- Velocity standards

Related links

:: The launch

:: Growth reference, 5-19 years

:: WHO Department of Nutrition for Health and Development

:: WHO Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development

:: WHO Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition

:: Multimedia help


BASIC GUIDELINES

Guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child | versión española

Management of severe malnutrition: a manual for physicians and other senior health workers.

HIV and infant feeding counselling tools: Reference Guide


ENDORSEMENTS

- The European Childhood Obesity Group [pdf 73kb]
- International Pediatric Association [pdf 94kb]
- UN Standing Committee on Nutrition [pdf 94kb]
- International Union of Nutrition Sciences [pdf 23kb]
REGIONAL ACTIVITIES

Region of the Americas
Caribbean workshop, Martinique, October 2005

Regional consultation, Mexico, December 2004


European Region
Regional workshop, Italy, March 2007

Eastern Mediterranean Region
Regional workshop, Oman, September 2005