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Abstract
Growth assessment is the single measurement that best defines the health and nutritional status of children.The child growth usually affected by any disturbance in health and nutrition.There are many factors most of which present in underprivileged populations and related to unsatisfactory food intake or severe and repeated infections, or a combination of the two. Growth assessment thus serves as a means for evaluating the health and nutritional status.
There are many factors that affecting children growth are the nutrition and socioeconomic status are probably the dominant factors influencing growth in the first year of life after infancy differences races and genetic differences among individuals, as growth parameters, including height and weight, are highly heritable traits ,very low birthweight infants (VLBW) are at increased risk of poor long term growth , chronic disease adversely affects growth, and the resulting impairment in height may be transient or sustained depending on the nature and course of the illness. Weight and height of preschool children are the most common anthropometric measurements to investigate a child’s growth rate.Weight is the simplest and most reliable anthropometric measurement and may be used as an indicator of childhood infection. On the other hand, height summarizes various measures of nutritional conditions in the first two decades of a human’s life. Head circumference is one of the most significant findings in physical examination of children, especially in the evaluation of the development and early diagnosis of neurological disorders.