Growth Monitoring and Promotion

Uses

How it works

Risks & contraindications

Background

Highlighted claims

• The WHO recommends Growth Monitoring and Promotion as a core component of essential primary healthcare. — Health facilities readiness and associated factors to provide growth monitoring services in low-income and middle-income countries: evidence from national service provision assessment surveys of six countries
• GMP involves anthropometric measurements compared against standard references, visualised on growth charts, and paired with individual counselling for caregivers. — Health facilities readiness and associated factors to provide growth monitoring services in low-income and middle-income countries: evidence from national service provision assessment surveys of six countries
• GMP serves as an entry point to broader maternal and child health services beyond its role in detecting malnutrition. — Health facilities readiness and associated factors to provide growth monitoring services in low-income and middle-income countries: evidence from national service provision assessment surveys of six countries
• Without guidelines, trained staff, and basic equipment, facilities are fundamentally unable to execute GMP services effectively. — Health facilities readiness and associated factors to provide growth monitoring services in low-income and middle-income countries: evidence from national service provision assessment surveys of six countries
• GMP programmes have faced persistent criticism since the 1980s for low service provision rates, poor professional performance, and inadequate infrastructure. — Health facilities readiness and associated factors to provide growth monitoring services in low-income and middle-income countries: evidence from national service provision assessment surveys of six countries
• Ethiopia incorporated GMP into its Health Extension Programme and made commitments under the Seqota Declaration, contributing to its relatively higher facility readiness. — Health facilities readiness and associated factors to provide growth monitoring services in low-income and middle-income countries: evidence from national service provision assessment surveys of six countries