Sentence examples for child measurement from inspiring English sources

Milton launched a six-week summer Change4Life campaign and also promised to continue the national child measurement programme in schools.

In year six, just before children leave primary school, 20% of boys and 17% of girls were obese, according to figures collected by the child measurement programme.

Dame Sally Davies was speaking as new figures emerged from the child measurement programme that showed levels of obesity among children were still getting steadily worse.

Overall, 9.3% of four- and five-year-olds in primary reception class in England in 2015-16 were classed as obese, up from 9.1% the previous year, according to the national child measurement programme (NCMP).

That is why in addition to reformulation we need to see restrictions on junk food advertising before 9pm, greater support for parents to reach and maintain a healthy weight before, during and after pregnancy and an extension to the national child measurement programme.

Local authorities have warned that because some services are "mandated", such as the national child measurement service, and others are locked into long-term contracts (often inherited from the NHS when they took responsibility for public health in 2013), this year's cuts are likely to fall disproportionately on weight-management, smoking cessation and sexual health.

It is unknown whether these factors are related to differential parent reporting of child measurements.

2008 Cambodia Anthropometrics Survey This survey includes anthropometric measurements of over seven thousand children, making it the largest national sample of child measurements ever collected in the country.

In addition to practical challenges of experimentation on children, measurement equipment like plantar pressure (PP) platforms are almost exclusively geared towards adult-sized feet.

"Public Health England are already carrying out children measurement schemes and weight-prevention initiatives are widespread - but child obesity treatment provision is a postcode lottery with many areas having limited or no child obesity treatment services at all".

With all children, measurements should be taken three times and averaged.