Growth monitoring—inappropriate promotion of an appropriate technology

D Nabarro, P Chinnock - Social science & medicine, 1988 - Elsevier
technologies to be promoted widely as part of the child survival revolution. In this paper we
consider the place of growth monitoring as … -spread advocacy of growth monitoring for young …

Growth monitoring: a brief literature review of current knowledge

M Lotfi - Food and nutrition bulletin, 1988 - journals.sagepub.com
Growth monitoring has gained popularity in the last two to … of growth monitoring is weighing
and charting growth, since weight gain is believed to be the most sensitive indicator of growth

Growth monitoring and promotion: review of evidence of impact

A Ashworth, R Shrimpton, K Jamil - Maternal & child nutrition, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… , irrespective of decisions about growth monitoring. This review … of growth monitoring
separately from the impact of growth promotion. There is no controversy about the need for growth-…

Worldwide practices in child growth monitoring

M De Onis, TMA Wijnhoven, AW Onyango - The Journal of pediatrics, 2004 - Elsevier
… national child growth monitoring practices. The information gathered on growth charts in …
to assist the transition from the current to the new growth charts in countries that adopt them. …

[PDF][PDF] Growth monitoring in children

R Panpanich, P Garner - Cochrane Database of Systematic …, 1999 - researchgate.net
… A second trial compared growth monitoring with and without plotting on growth chart, which
… one of our prespecified control arms of "no growth monitoring". However, given that it could …

Is growth monitoring worthwhile?

N Gerein - Health policy and planning, 1988 - academic.oup.com
… on the poor implementation of growth monitoring and its … for the importance of growth
monitoring's contribution to various … -an inappropriate promotion of an appropriate technology. …

Evaluation of effectiveness of good growth monitoring in south Indian villages

SM George, MC Latham, EA Frongillo, R Abel… - The Lancet, 1993 - Elsevier
… the main criticism of growth monitoring was the appropriateness of the technology. 12 Our …
the effectiveness of growth monitoring with GMP and NGM villages. Why did the growth charts, …

Is growth monitoring worthwhile? An evaluation of its use in three child health programmes in Zaire

NM Gerein, DA Ross - Social science & medicine, 1991 - Elsevier
growth monitoring, have led the authors to conclude that the case for including growth monitoring
… -effectiveness of growth monitoring, but the introduction of growth monitoring into future …

Monitoring the growth of the world's children

RA Dixon - Annals of tropical paediatrics, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
growth monitoring); a mistaken belief that growth monitoring is simple because the basic
technology … the means to improved growth); use of growth monitoring as an isolated nutritional …

Do growth monitoring and promotion programs answer the performance criteria of a screening program? A critical analysis based on a systematic review

D Roberfroid, P Kolsteren, T Hoeree… - Tropical Medicine & …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… of growth monitoring as a … growth monitoring remains technically problematic, which was
already stressed in 1994 by Morley who drew attention to the fact that interpretation of growth