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## Introduction Child nutritional status is an essential component of a country's overall human development. There is a growing consensus that poor nutritional status during childhood (and in utero) can have long-lasting scarring consequences into adulthood, both in terms of health and mortality, and in terms of other measures of human capital such as schooling and productivity (Maluccio et al., 2005; Behrman et al., 2006; Glewwe and Miguel, 2007). In the last three decades, countless studies have measured child nutritional status in developing countries using as reference growth charts introduced in 1977, estimated from a population of U.S. children by the Center for Disease Control and prevention and the National Center for Health Statistics. The use of such standards had been recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for international use since the late 1970s, based on studies suggesting that the growth patterns of healthy children are similar across different ethnic groups (Habicht et al.,

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Author

Alessandro Tarozzi

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1570-677X)

Published

2008

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences (Health Sciences)