Appraising the Health of Culturally Deprived Children

standard procedures in the health evaluation of children. Clinicians often compare the weight and height of children to explain an unimsually low or high measuremerit in an individual child. They are usually reassimrecl if the height of a given child is in the same percentile of normal value as his weight. Clinicians base their reassurance upon the assumption of a correlation of the processes that increase body mass and the processes which cause growth of the long bones and vertebrae in children. When the measurements fall in diverse percentiles, the clinician must explain his finding by identifying the same body type in the siblings and parents, must carry out later measurements to confirm normal inci-ements in both parameters, or must carry oitt further tests to rule out a pathological process. Attention to the relationship between measurements may yield further valuable information. lf the condition called health implies maximal rates of growth and maturation, and if each part of the organism participates in growth when nourishment is abundant or in compensation when there is insult or deficiency; then study of the relationship between measurements should help describe children or groups of children according to their general state of health

Developmental psychology · Sociology · Child and Adolescent Health · Psychology

• Psychosocial Correlates of Iron Deficiency Anemia in Early Childhood

  Sidney L Werkman, LYDIA SHIFMAN et al.•Psychosomatic Medicine•1964

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