The new WHO Child Growth Standards confirm that children born anywhere in the world and given the optimum start in life have the potential to develop to within the same range of height and weight. The new standards prove that differences in children's growth to age five are more influenced by nutrition, feeding practices, environment, and healthcare than genetics or ethnicity. Naturally there are individual differences among children, but across large populations, regionally and globally, the average growth is remarkably similar.
With these new standards, parents, doctors, policymakers and child advocates will know when the nutrition and healthcare needs of children are not being met. Under-nutrition, overweight and obesity, and other growth- related conditions can then be detected and addressed at an early stage. The new standards are based on the breastfed child as the norm for growth and development. This brings coherence for the first time between the tools used to assess growth, and national and international infant feeding guidelines, which recommend breastfeeding as the optimal source of nutrition during infancy. This will now allow accurate assessment, measurement and evaluation of breastfeeding and complementary feeding.
[Indian Journal of Medical Science ,2006;(60)4]
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世界衛(wèi)生組織公布的新版《兒童生長(zhǎng)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)》認(rèn)定無(wú)論出生于何地的兒童，只要在出生時(shí)得到最適宜的照顧，其身高和體重就有潛力發(fā)育至相同范圍內(nèi)。這套新的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)表明,在5歲之前，營(yíng)養(yǎng)狀況、喂養(yǎng)方式、生長(zhǎng)環(huán)境，以及衛(wèi)生保健，是比基因或種族更影響兒童生長(zhǎng)的重要因素。當(dāng)然兒童之間仍存在個(gè)體差異，但是在局部地區(qū)或全球大樣本調(diào)查下。兒童平均生長(zhǎng)范圍非常相似。
有了這套新標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，家長(zhǎng)、醫(yī)生、決策者和兒童權(quán)利倡導(dǎo)者將會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)兒童的營(yíng)養(yǎng)和衛(wèi)生保健需求何時(shí)未得到滿足?？稍缙诎l(fā)現(xiàn)并闡述營(yíng)養(yǎng)不良、超重、肥胖以及其他生長(zhǎng)相關(guān)狀況。新標(biāo)準(zhǔn)以母乳喂養(yǎng)的兒童作為生長(zhǎng)發(fā)育的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)規(guī)范，并且首次將評(píng)估生長(zhǎng)的工具與國(guó)內(nèi)和國(guó)際嬰兒喂養(yǎng)指南聯(lián)系起來(lái)。該指南建議母乳喂養(yǎng)作為嬰兒期最佳營(yíng)養(yǎng)來(lái)源并可以對(duì)母乳喂養(yǎng)和補(bǔ)充喂養(yǎng)做出精確評(píng)估、測(cè)量與評(píng)價(jià)。
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