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What is your height? ____________________________________ What is your weight? ____________________________________ What is the color of your skin? ____________________________________ What is the color of your hair? ____________________________________ What should be typical circumference of thigh muscles for specific age and height? ____________________________________ |
| Body mass index |
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Birth-weight Weight Head Circumference Mid-upper-arm-circumference (MAUC) Weight-for-age Height-for-age Weight-for-height Underweight Stunting Wasting Failure to Thrive Body Mass Index (BMI) Body Surface Area (BSA) Weight and change in weight Weight measurement in pregnant woman Mid-upper-arm-circumference (MAUC) |
| Anthropometric measurements |
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What is anthropometry about? Why is anthropometry important? What is anthropometry about? More formally it is the study of the size, shape and strength of the human body, including, mass, volumes, mobility, proportions, centers of gravity, and inertial properties of the whole body and body segments. Anthropometrics is the practice of anthropometry and involves the collection, analysis and application of anthropometric data. |