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Methods and Devices

Improved assessment of child nutritional status using target weights and a novel, low-cost, weight-for-height slide chart

Marko Kerac MRCPCH MPH   ^*  **    Andrew Seal MSc PhD      Hannah Blencowe MRCPCH MRCGP   ^*   James Bunn DTM&H FRCPCH     

^* Departments of Paediatrics; Community Health, College of Medicine, Private Bag 360, Blantyre 3, Malawi; UCL Centre for International Health and Development, Institute of Child Health, London; Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool; ^** Valid International, UK

Correspondence to: Dr Marko Kerac, UCL Centre for International Health and Development, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK Email: marko.kerac{at}gmail.com

Correctly identifying malnourished or at-risk children is the critical first step towards appropriate nutritional interventions. To improve weight-for-height assessment and classification of nutritional status, we present a novel, low-cost, weight-for-height slide chart. We also describe a target weight system for monitoring children's progress towards nutritional recovery.

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