A standardized way to measure child growth is important to be able to understand childhood growth and development. Working with AHS partners, a standardized program to measure children’s growth in infants, children and adolescents up to 19 years of age was developed and implemented.
Healthy Children & Families and Nutrition Services, with guidance and expertise from partners across the continuum of care (Public Health, Ambulatory, and Acute Care) consolidated growth measurement and interpretation guidance into a one-stop shop for childhood growth monitoring. The updated Childhood Growth Monitoring Guidance was developed from the evidence-based procedures outlined in the former Growth Chart Use Protocol, Childhood Growth Measurement Protocol, and Weight Velocity Nutrition Guideline. Evidence reviews validated current practices, with some changes made. To learn more, visit Childhood Growth Monitoring.
Protocol and training resources.
Health care providers can order the free step-by-step measurement technique posters for children of different ages to use in their sites:
Order: Data Group
User ID: healthypublic
Password: healthy2013
Measurement posters (packages of 1):
Ordering info card (packages of 25):
Email: eyhp@ahs.ca
