Gender and Household Food Security    
  International Fund for Agricultural Development

Uganda - Mothers and their babies meet with the nurse at the mobile well baby clinic, part of the Bugambe Health Unit. Children's weight and general health is checked. Routine vaccines and supplements such as vitamin A drops for night blindness are administered. IFAD photo by Radhika Chalasani  - Uganda - Mothers and their babies meet with the nurse at the mobile well baby clinic, part of the Bugambe Health Unit. Children's weight and general health is checked. Routine vaccines and supplements such as vitamin A drops for night blindness are administered.Training Handbook includes resource materials on various training subjects: survey methodology; general procedures; anthropometric equipment; and how to weigh and measure children. (Adapted from How to weigh and Measure Children: Assessing the Nutritional Status of Young Children in Household Surveys, prepared by the United Nations Department of Technical Co-operation, New York, 1986).

102 Collecting Anthropometric Measures of Children
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. General Procedures for Anthropometry
4. Equipment
5. Height Measure of a Child Standing
6. Height Measure (Length) of a Child Lying Down
7. Weight Measure Using a Salter Scale
Appendix 1 - Anthropometry: Survey Form
Appendix 2: Calendar for Calculating Age in Months

 


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