Promoting optimal monitoring of child growth in Canada: using the new WHO growth charts

Can J Diet Pract Res. 2010 Spring;71(1):e1-3. doi: 10.3148/71.1.2010.54.

Authors

Dietitians of Canada¹; Canadian Paediatric Society; College of Family Physicians of Canada; Community Health Nurses of Canada; Donna Secker

Collaborators

Cheryl Armistead, Lynda Corby, Margaret de Groh, Valerie Marchand, Leslie L Rourke, Eunice Misskey, Catherine Atchison, Nicole Mireau, Shefali Raja, Kristen Yarker-Edgar, Carlota Basualdo, Kim Brunet, Debra Buffum, Rhonda Chartrand, Tanis Fenton, Kristyn Hall, Bodil Larsen, Diana Mager, Kaley Moran, Cheryl Ryan, Joan Silzer, Eunice Misskey, Lorrie Hagen, Andrea Nash, Lee Rysdale, Claire Gaudet-LeBlanc, Suzanne Clair, Isabelle Hall, Renee Cool, Tina Swinamer, Janine Woodrow, Jean-Pierre Chanoine, Leah Feist, Brenda George, Chantal Martineau, Jennifer McCrea, Jeff Critch, Manjula Gowrishankar, Valérie Marchand, Sharon L Unger, Robin C Williams, Genevieve Courant, George Davidson, Eunice Misskey, Frank Greer, Jennifer McCrea, Christina Zehaluk, Jan Hong Kim, Leslie L Rourke, Cheryl Armistead, Ruth Schofield, Joanne Gilmore, Nancy Waters

Affiliation

¹ The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario.

PMID: 21815309
DOI: 10.3148/71.1.2010.54

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Anthropometry / methods
Body Mass Index
Canada
Child
Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena*
Dietetics
Growth Charts*
Guidelines as Topic
Health Promotion / standards*
Humans
Infant
World Health Organization