In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) produced a revised growth reference. This has already been used in different settings outside the USA. Using data obtained during a nutritional survey in Madagascar, we compare results producedby using both the 2000CDCand the 1978National Center forHealth Statistics (NCHS)/WorldHealthOrganization (WHO)growth references.We show that c...

Introduction The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) periodically conducts mortality followup studies through record linkage to administrative data sources for its major populationbased surveys (see NCHS Data Linkage Activities), providing a longitudinal component to nationally representative data. These linked mortality files, in general, fill research gaps by creating data resources ...

We examined the difference in the prevalence estimates of the outcome indicators for the new World Health Organization (WHO) child growth standard reference (WHO 2006) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)/WHO reference using the National Protein-Energy Malnutrition Survey dataset. Based on the NCHS/WHO reference, overall prevalence estimates of underweight, wasting, stunting and...

OBJECTIVES To compare growth patterns and estimates of malnutrition based on the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards ('the WHO standards') and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)/WHO international growth reference ('the NCHS reference'), and discuss implications for child health programmes. DESIGN Secondary analysis of longitudinal data to compare growth patter...

Long-term care services provided by paid, regulated providers are an important component of personal health care spending in the United States. This report presents the most current national descriptive results from the National Study of Long-Term Care Providers (NSLTCP), which is conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Data pr...

OBJECTIVE The present study analysed the impact of using the 2006 WHO Child Growth Standards ('the WHO standards') compared with the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) international growth reference ('the NCHS reference') on the calculated prevalence of chronic malnutrition in children aged 6·0-59·9 months. DESIGN Anthropometric data were collected as part of a cross-sectional ...

OBJECTIVE To compare estimates of under-nutrition among pre-school Pakistani children using the WHO growth standard and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reference. DESIGN Prevalence of stunting, wasting and underweight as defined by WHO and NCHS standards are calculated and compared. SETTING The data are from two cross-sectional surveys conducted in the early 1990s, the time...