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This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
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Links to related guidelines are provided separately:
●(See "Society guideline links: Pediatric malnutrition".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Healthy diet in children and adolescents".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Breastfeeding and infant nutrition".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Growth hormone deficiency and other growth disorders".)
International
●World Health Organization (WHO): Child growth standards
●WHO: Guideline on essential nutrition actions – Mainstreaming nutrition through the life-course (2019)
●WHO: Guideline for implementing effective actions for improving adolescent nutrition (2018)
Canada
●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Position statement on promoting optimal monitoring of child growth in Canada – Using the new World Health Organization growth charts (2014, updated 2023)
●CPS: Practice point on recognizing and addressing atypical growth (2023)
●CPS: Practice point on the nutritional evaluation of the neurologically impaired child (2020)
United States
●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Growth charts
Europe
United Kingdom
●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Quality standard on faltering growth (2020)
●NICE: Guideline on faltering growth – Recognition and management of faltering growth in children (2017)
Australia–New Zealand
●Royal Children's Hospital (RCH): Clinical practice guidelines on poor growth