So far I only know of the WHO data which is available online. http://www.who.int/nutgrowthdb/reference.html http://www.who.int/nutgrowthdb/
On Friday 17 December 2004 08:27 pm, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Tuesday 14 December 2004 05:44 pm, Nancy E. Anthracite wrote: > > I am not a pediatrician, or even a family practitioner as you > > know, but I am being guided by the pediatricians on the HL7 > > SIG, and I am not aiming at just the office practice. For > > instance, one of the SIG docs should be providing data on > > premature infants growth curves, etc., once it is published. > > He seems eager to do what he can to help with our project. He > > is in informatics and with a medical school. We have some > > pretty darn good help! > > > > According to the people who studied the growth issue and > > developed the growth data for the CDC, the correction should > > continue until at least age 2, and very low birth weight > > infants are not even included in that group. Those infants > > curves use other data. Not all of the data which would be > > ideal to use will be available to us as "open source", but I > > will do the best I can with what I can use. > > I wonder whether we can get UN or national data on growth of > infants and young children in famine areas and under various > disease burdens, and on recovery with proper nutrition and > medical treatment. It would be useful for making Dr. Paul > Farmer's case (Partners in Health, Haiti) that health care > should be regarded as a basic and primary human right. > > I know that related studies have been done in the past. For > example, the famine in the Netherlands, deliberately created by > the retreating Germans in WWII, was for decades the best studied > example. IIRC, it concluded that up to quite severe starvation > levels, the fetus would get adequate nutrition at the expense of > the mother. > > > So yes, for most doing primary care, this is overkill, but I > > want to give it a good shot, especially for this particular > > component, which is close to the easiest thing of all we have > > to deal with. > > > > And besides, it is the computer that is going to be doing and > > plotting all of these nice calculations for us. What is a few > > bits and clock cycles between friends? ;-) -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
