*** IMPORTANT LINKS ***

General

Internet resources on anthropometry

UN World Food Program, World Hunger Map, (info on malnutrition, etc.)

Sources of Data

Human energy requirements FAO

Health calculators – growth, etc.

“Heights and biological standards of living” data to download courtesy of Dr. Joergen Baten

World Health Organization (WHO) Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)

2000 CDC Growth Charts

Life history data on 1,400+ mammals from Ernest 2003 in Excel format

(e.g. body size, weaning age and size, fertility, max lifespan, gestation period, age at first reprod.)

Ernest 2003 list of variable definitions article that accompanies the above data

Sample of Tsimane infant growth data used for in-class exercise

Software

WHO Anthro 2005 software and macros

Download EPI INFO (How to install...)

Curve Expert 1.3

Data Plot program - good for PC and MAC (this program does LOWESS smoothing)

MS Excel add-in for data smoothing

Training and guides

Anthropometric Indicators Measurement Guide, 2003 Edition

Anthropometric indicators - review

WHO Training for measuring child growth

WHO Publications on infant and child growth and health

PowerPoint Presentation "Out with the old? In with the new?: Implications of the new WHO 2006 Child Growth Standards" [786 kb]

Real video training modules for EPI INFO

A Few Journals

American Journal of Human Biology

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Economics and Human Biology

International Journal of Obesity