ILOs:
- Explain how routine measurements of growth are collected
- Understand why growth charts are needed
- State what norms healthy children should be compared to
- Describe how the WHO growth charts were constructed
- Explain how growth charts can be used to identify normal and abnormal growth
- Table showing which growth measurements are routinely collected in all school children in the UK and when
- How babies and children are measured - worksheet
- What do we use growth charts for, and how are they made?
- What is important about a normal distribution?
- How is a growth chart constructed?
- What are extreme outer centiles in the UK charts?
- How do standard deviation scores and centiles correspond?
- What does a height on the 25th centile mean?
- As a population gets more affluent, what happens to height?
- What's the reality behind the differences in height between different ethnicities?
- Do breastfed children and formula-fed children grow in the same manner?
- What lead to the WHO producing their growth chart?
- What would the ideal growth chart look like?