GROWTH MONITORING

Growth is a regular increase in the size or weight all living things. The early years of childhood are the most rapid growth periods. If the child is growing normally the child is healthy. Monitoring for measuring the growth is there for a good way of assessing whether the child is in good health or not.

Monitoring in a simple lemons terminology means keeping a regular track or check on somethings like every week or every month. keeping a regular track of the change in weight over a period of time can therefore be referred as to growth monitoring.
growth monitoring is a regular measurement recording and interpretation of child growth changes in order to council act and follow up results. in other terms assessment with an action consequence of result are linked by relevant interpretation in growth monitoring. these activities are best described by the term growth monitoring and promotion. The term promotion has been added because monitoring alone emphasises assessment rather than action.

the purpose of growth monitoring is to help and identify the matrix child take action on the first sign of independent growth and indicate nutrition in intervention (breast feeding, supplementary feeding etc).with other health interventions immunization ORT restore health and proper growth of children. Growth monitoring is a preventive and Pro promotive strategy and at action before malnutrition occurs. by creating concern and demand for growth and unbalanced it to be visualised growth monitoring use uses regular monitoring of growth to establish a regular requiring and an effective communication with each other in the fact in act as a tool for health and nutrition education to mother does promoting optimum health of child.

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