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Routine growth monitoring processes in nutrition programs in India have multiple falter points with implications for quality of care

Growth monitoring (GM) and promotion is a routine part of primary healthcare for children in >80% of countries. In India, 57.5 million children are measured every month by frontline workers to assess their growth and to trigger preventive or curative services. Standard guidance for anthropometry sug...

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Main Authors: Bajaj, Sumati, Avula, Rasmi, Pant, Anjali, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Ruel, Marie T., Menon, Purnima
Format: Abstract
Language:Inglés
Published: American Society for Nutrition 2020
Subjects:
infants
care work
child nutrition
anthropometry
programmes
adults
food policies
nutrition
children
clothing
food science
health care
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142448
Summary:Growth monitoring (GM) and promotion is a routine part of primary healthcare for children in >80% of countries. In India, 57.5 million children are measured every month by frontline workers to assess their growth and to trigger preventive or curative services. Standard guidance for anthropometry suggests that quality can be compromised by the choice of measurement equipment, placement of equipment, and positioning of children during measurement. Little is known about the quality of measurement processes during GM. We compared child height and weight measurement processes with standards for anthropometry to assess GM quality.

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