El año 2007, la Organización Mundial de Salud (OMS) publicó una nueva referencia para evaluación del estado nutricional niños y adolescentes 5 a 19 años. A partir 2016 el Ministerio Chile aprueba estos estándares desarrollo su normativa. Con objetivo comparar clasificación Estado Nutricional según IMC/E; T/E obtenidos los patrones crecimiento NCHS 1977 OMS 2007 en estudiantes pertenecientes un ...

OBJECTIVES This report details development of the 2013 National Center for Health Statistics' (NCHS) Urban-Rural Classification Scheme for Counties (update of the 2006 NCHS scheme) and applies it to health measures to demonstrate urban-rural health differences. METHODS The methodology used to construct the 2013 NCHS scheme was the same as that used for the 2006 NCHS scheme, but 2010 census-ba...

Introduction In 2013, NCHS completed a mortality update for the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) participants for the years 1985 to 2009, with mortality ascertained through December 31, 2011. Due to requirements to protect the confidentiality of the NHIS participants, restricted-use versions of the NHIS Linked Mortality Files were made available only through the NCHS Research Data Center...

OBJECTIVES This report details the National Center for Health Statistics' (NCHS) development of the 2006 NCHS Urban-Rural Classification Scheme for Counties and provides some examples of how the scheme can be used to describe differences in health measures by urbanization level. METHODS The 2006 NCHS urban-rural classification scheme classifies all U.S. counties and county-equivalents into si...

BACKGROUND Anthropometric indices are widely used to assess the health and nutritional status of children The aim of the present study was determination of malnutrition and compare estimates of under nutrition among young children under 2 years of age from Birjand city of Iran using WHO growth standard and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) references. METHODS The cross-sectiona...