WHO global database on child growth and malnutrition

ii The designations employed and the presentation of material do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country, territory or area, its authorities, its current or former official name or the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the foundation of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer " Tomorrow ". His name is " Today ". We dedicate this work to the world's children in the hope that it will alert decision-makers to how much remains to be done to ensure children's healthy growth and development. " " WHO/NUT/97.4 iv Acknowledgements The Programme of Nutrition appreciates the strong support from numerous individuals, institutions, governments, and nongovernmental and international organizations, without whose continual collaboration this compilation would not have been possible. A special note of gratitude is due to all those who provided standardized information and reanalyses of original data sets to conform to the database requirements. Thanks to such international cooperation in keeping the Global Database up-to-date, the Programme of Nutrition is able to present this vast compilation of data on worldwide patterns and trends in child growth and malnutrition. SD Standard deviation WHO World Health Organization Z-score (or SD-score) The deviation of an individual's value from the median value of a reference population, divided by the standard deviation of the reference population.

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