**Background**: Undernutrition among children under 5 years of age continues to be a public health challenge in many low- and middle-income countries and can lead to growth stunting. Infectious diseases may also affect child growth, however their …
**Background/Aims**: Childhood stunting is a prevalent problem in low- and middle-income countries and is associated with long-term adverse neurodevelopment and health out- comes. In this review, we define indicators of growth, discuss key challenges …
**Objectives**: To study trends in height of Turkish and Moroccan immigrant children living in The Netherlands, to investigate the association between height and background characteristics in these children, and to calculate height-for-age-references …
In dit artikel belichten we kort een nieuwe techniek waarbij een grote en complexe gegevensverzameling snel doorzoekbaar en analyseerbaar is (‘big data’), het zoge- noemde ‘curve matching’. Curve matching is een generieke techniek die bruikbaar is …
Twenty-five scientists met at Aschauhof, Altenhof, Germany, to discuss various aspects of the complex network of modern health screening, focusing on current scientific topics including medical sciences, human biology, and mathematics; on problems in …
The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with a number of research institutions world-wide, is developing new child growth standards. As part of a broad consultative process for selecting the best statistical methods, WHO convened a …