Hi Magda,
Thank you for your post.
I wanna ask... is there a difference between the growth charts you have now
developed and the WHO-charts?
I'm not very familiar with the differences yet, not even between the old
ones we used to use in the Netherlands and the WHO-ones... :-s
I can easily find them online here, but so far did not have the need to
print them so as to be able to compare growth data from a specific child.
I do like to have the best charts, though, for a project I will probably get
involved in.
Can further clarify your work on these charts, on or off list, if my
question is too low a level for the rest of us... ;o))
Bye,
Marianne Vanderveen IBCLC, Netherlands
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From: "Magda Sachs" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [LACTNET] UK-WHO Growth Charts
> After a year, the UK design growth charts, using WHO data from 2 weeks to
> 4 years, and UK birth and preterm data, are almost ready to be launched.
> There will also be new info for parents.
> This project involved consultation with parents and groups of
> professionals, as well as testing materials in the groups through plotting
> and interpretation exercises. These were conducted last summer, and I was
> closely invovled in this phase and part of the work.
> The group spent a great deal of time on writing clear instructions. These
> may be most relevant to the UK situation.
> I will give you the urls for the educational materials when that goes
> live, and also to the charts (I believe they will be online). Our design
> will be crown copyright, which means that anyone can produce charts from
> it as long as they use the exact spec.
> In view of some of the comments made earlier in another discussion, I want
> to state that our working group, which was convened by the Royal College
> of Paediatrics and Child Health in England, was a group of 9 (plus the
> designer); 5 of whom are paediatricians. I couldn't have more respect for
> the work of the team and of these paediatric colleagues.
> Because we presented papers on the chart to the annual meeting of the
> RCPCH, I had the pleasure of sitting through an afternoon advocacy session
> in which paediatricians presented on and debated child poverty. It was
> really heartening to hear them on this aspect of their work.
> I want to remind everyone that some of the most important advocates of
> breastfeeding have been and are paediatricians. Actions of one
> association do not necessarily represent the whole profession.
> Back to the chart -- I realise that it is of marginal interest to most of
> you because it will be in kilos and therefore unuseable. However, I am
> hoping that we will continue to monitor its implementation in some way,
> and that we may be able to report on this project in the future. I
> believe that the UK is the first 'developed' country to adopt the chart
> and I suspect our process of consultation and testing (and subsequent
> changes to the design) may be a first for any growth chart.
> Magda Sachs
> member UK-WHO Growth Chart Working Group, UK
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