Publications

The following summary papers and documents have been published based on this WHO Global Database:

• Prevalence and trends of stunting among pre-school children, 1990–2020
  Public Health Nutrition 2012;15:142-8.
• Global prevalence and trends of overweight and obesity among preschool children
  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2010;92:1257–64.
• Worldwide timing of growth faltering: Revisiting implications for interventions.
  Pediatrics 2010;125;e473-e480.
• Algorithms for converting estimates of child malnutrition based on the NCHS reference into estimates based on the WHO Child Growth Standards
  BMC Pediatrics 2008, 8:19 (05 May 2008)
  (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2431/8/19).
• Undernutrition as an underlying cause of child deaths associated with diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, and measles
  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2004;80:193-8.
• Is malnutrition declining? An analysis of changes in levels of child malnutrition since 1980
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2000;78:1222-33.
• Comparison of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards and the National Center for Health Statistics/WHO international growth reference: implications for child health programmes
  Public Health Nutrition 2006;9:942-7.
• Malnutrition: Quantifying the health impact at national and local levels
  Environmental Burden of Disease Series, No. 12. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2005.
• Methodology for estimating regional and global trends of child malnutrition
  International Journal of Epidemiology 2004;33:1260-70.
• Estimates of global prevalence of childhood underweight in 1990 and 2015
  JAMA 2004;291:2600-6.
• The World Health Organization Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition: methodology and applications
  International Journal of Epidemiology 2003;32:518-26.
• Selected major risk factors and global and regional burden of disease
  Lancet 2002; 360: 1347–60.
• Worldwide timing of growth faltering: Implications for nutritional interventions
  Pediatrics 2001;107(5):E75.
• Prevalence and trends of overweight among preschool children in developing countries
  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2000;72:1032-9.
• The worldwide magnitude of protein-energy malnutrition: an overview from the WHO Global Database on Child Growth
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1993;71:703-12.