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The WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study (MGRS): Rationale, planning, and implementation

Mercedes de Onis (WHO), Cutberto Garza (UNU), Cesar G. Victora (Brazil), Maharaj K. Bhan (India), and Kaare R. Norum (Norway), guest editors

Food and Nutrition Bulletin 2004;25(supplement 1):S3-S84.

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Preface [pdf 39kb]
LEE Jong-wook, Director-General, World Health Organization, and H. van Ginkel, Rector, United Nations University

Rationale [pdf 119kb]
Rationale for developing a new international growth reference —C. Garza and M. de Onis, for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group

Planning, study design, and methodology [pdf 172kb]
The WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study: Planning, study design, and methodology —M. de Onis, C. Garza, C. G. Victora, A. W. Onyango, E. A. Frongillo, and J. Martines, for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group

Measurement and standardization protocols [pdf 193kb]
Measurement and standardization protocols for anthropometry used in the construction of a new international growth reference —M. de Onis, A. W. Onyango, J. Van den Broeck, W. C. Chumlea, and R. Martorell, for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group

Assessment of gross motor development [pdf 129kb]
Assessment of gross motor development in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study —T. M. A. Wijnhoven, M. de Onis, A. W. Onyango, T. Wang, G.-E. A. Bjoerneboe, N. Bhandari, A. Lartey, and B. Al Rashidi, for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group

Managing data for a multicountry longitudinal study [pdf 82kb]
Managing data for a multicountry longitudinal study: Experience from the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study —A. W. Onyango, A. J. Pinol, and M. de Onis, for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group

Brazil [pdf 80kb]
Implementation of the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study in Brazil —C. L. Araújo, E. Albernaz, E. Tomasi, and C. G. Victora, for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group

Ghana [pdf 83kb]
Implementation of the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study in Ghana —A. Lartey, W. B. Owusu, I. Sagoe-Moses, V. Gomez, and C. Sagoe-Moses, for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group

India [pdf 76kb]
Implementation of the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study in India —N. Bhandari, S. Taneja, T. Rongsen, J. Chetia, P. Sharma, R. Bahl, D. K. Kashyap, and M. K. Bhan, for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group

Norway [pdf 76kb]
Implementation of the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study in Norway —A. Baerug, G.-E. A. Bjoerneboe, E. Tufte, and K. R. Norum, for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group

Oman [pdf 78kb]
Implementation of the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study in Oman —N. S. Prakash, R. M. Mabry, A. J. Mohamed, and D. Alasfoor, for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group

United States [pdf 78kb]
Implementation of the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study in the United States —K. G. Dewey, R. J. Cohen, L. A. Nommsen-Rivers, and M. J. Heinig, for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group