الفهرس يوجد فقط 14 صفحة متاحة للعرض العام
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المستخلص
Growth is the fundamental physiologic process that characterizes childhood. Throughout the growing years of children, a stable environment is required for normal growth. Lifestyle factor play big role in children’s growth and development. In general growth and development is result of multiple interacting and changeable factors like; Genetics, gender, nutrition, physical activity, health problems, environment, and hormones Failure to thrive is a description applied to children whose current weight or rate of weight gain are significantly below that of other children of similar age and sex. It can be a result of many factors including organic, nonorganic factors or combination of both organic and nonorganic reasons. Growth assessment is the single most useful tool for defining health and nutritional status in children. The objective of growth monitoring is timely identification of disturbances in normal weight gain and linear growth in order to investigate corrective therapy and achieve full growth potential. The most common physical measurements for evaluating growth are recumbent length (birth to age two or three) and standing height (children age two who are able to stand straight), weight, and head circumference (until age two). A much better anthropometric index for determining nutritional status considers a child’s weight relative to his/her height, which is a measure of shape (i.e. fatness, thinness or wasting).