The World Health Organization Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition: methodology and applications.

By M. de Onís, M. Blössner. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2003

630 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4ddd585d429584be895eb802ba6312feddf847fc

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Nutrition and Dietetics

1. R. Steckel
2. Marc H. Bornstein
3. M. Ezzati
4. Colin D Mathers
5. Alan D. Lopez
6. D. Jamison
7. Murray Cjl
8. M. Blössner

In Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

1. R. Steckel
2. Marc H. Bornstein
3. Colin D Mathers
4. M. Ezzati
5. Alan D. Lopez

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. R. Steckel
2. Marc H. Bornstein
3. M. Ezzati
4. Colin D Mathers
5. M. Blössner
6. M. de Onís
7. E. Borghi
8. T. Lobstein

Citations in the corpus

• Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions (2008, positive): “…Measurement Surveys (LSMS) administered by the World Bank, and the WHO Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition are exceptionally important (Grosh and Glewwe 1995; de Onis and Blössner 2003), and the findings from these and similar data sources have been published in numerous outlets.”
• Global prevalence and trends of overweight and obesity among preschool children. (2010, background): “The steps taken to ensure standardized quality control and analysis of surveys are described elsewhere (9).”
• The Burden of Disease and Mortality by Condition: Data, Methods, and Results for 2001 -- Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors (2006, methodology): “…representative studies from WHO’s global database on child growth and malnutrition (http://www. who.int/nutgrowthdb/) were used to estimate the prevalence of child stunting and wasting in every country (de Onis and Blossner 2003; de Onis, Frongillo, and Blossner 2000; de Onis and others 2004).”
• Handbook of cultural developmental science (2010, background): “…allocating resources, and evaluating progress at the international, national, and even regional 39 40 • Handbook ofCultural Developmental Science levels (de Onis and Blossner, 2003; Milman, Frongillo, de Onis, and Hwang, 2005; United Nations Children's Fund [UNICEF], 2006; World Bank, 1993).”
• The world's most deprived: Characteristics and causes of extreme poverty and hunger (2007, neutral): “WHO 2006,c author’s estimates children under five -Under-five mortality rate 2003 -UNICEF 2005 a Three-year average. b Latest survey in this period. c The methodology applied for the WHO Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition is described in de Onis and Blössner (2003).”