Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Child Growth

Child growth is the measurable increase in body size and the progression of physical development from infancy through adolescence, assessed through anthropometric indicators such as weight, length or height, and growth velocity referenced against standardized growth charts. It is a sensitive marker of child health a…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 47× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2641-4538 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Child growth is the measurable increase in body size and the progression of physical development from infancy through adolescence, assessed through anthropometric indicators such as weight, length or height, and growth velocity referenced against standardized growth charts. It is a sensitive marker of child health and nutrition, shaped by feeding practices, micronutrient adequacy, infection, socioeconomic conditions, and maternal and caregiver factors; deviations such as stunting, wasting, and underweight signal nutritional and health risk with lasting consequences. Growth monitoring is a core component of child-health programs. Public Health International publishes peer-reviewed research relevant to child growth, including studies of growth monitoring and caregiver roles, complementary feeding practices among under-five children, complementary food hygiene, infant feeding and lactation practices, nutritional status in infants with single-ventricle physiology, the effect of low birth weight on later cardiometabolic phenotypes, the choice of growth charts in the post-COVID era, and maternal and child health-care delivery. This work links feeding, nutritional status, hygiene, and socioeconomic and caregiving factors with growth outcomes, reflecting the field's emphasis on monitoring and supporting healthy growth through nutrition and child-health interventions, particularly among young children in low-resource and at-risk populations.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 47 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Child Growth, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Public Health International (ISSN 2641-4538).

Journal editorial board
Javad Javan-Noughabi · United Kingdom Evelyn O Talbott · United States Zainab Taha · United Arab Emirates

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