Growth Monitoring in Maasai Children,Africa

by Michael Elmore-Meegan

also www.fao.org/docrep/003/X8576M/x8576m03.htm
Growth monitoring a forgotten subject. D. Morley
The weighing of children is commonly undertaken in developing countries. In South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Kenya and many other countries almost every child still has a weight chart but, unfortunately, the majority of these charts are poorly completed and not used for decision-making.

Faltering of the growth rate of a child is of major significance and should be easy to recognize on an adequately completed weight chart. However, the literature produced by international organizations and major non-governmental organizations (NGOs) rarely, if ever, mentions growth monitoring. For example, studies of food and nutrition made by the World Health Organization (WHO, 1998), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF, 1998) and FAO (1998) make little mention of growth faltering and do not refer to growth monitoring. This omission from reports is justified by the history of growth monitoring given in this article.

The purpose of the article is to propose a new approach to growth monitoring and to present evidence that when family members can recognize growth faltering they will take action to prevent it.

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