2024
DOI: 10.1136/bmjpo-2023-002472
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Global relevance of MGRS growth standards: the case of India

Vandana Prasad,
Dipa Sinha,
Rohit James Joseph

Abstract: The most common measures of childhood undernutrition are based on anthropometric measures such as height-for-age (stunting/chronic undernutrition) and weight-for-height (wasting/acute undernutrition). It is well recognised that the determinants of undernutrition are multiple, including food intake, dietary diversity, health, sanitation and women’s status. Currently, most countries across the world including India use the globally accepted WHO-Multicentre Growth Reference Study (MGRS) growth standards (2006) fo… Show more

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