PERSPECTIVE
Image or reality
Image or reality: why do infant size and growth matter to parents?
1 Glasgow University, Peach Unit, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow, UK
2 Glasgow University, Glasgow, UK
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor C M Wright
Department of Child Health, Glasgow University, Peach Unit, 8th Floor QMH Tower, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow G3 8SJ, UK; cmw7a@clinmed.gla.ac.uk
Perspective on the paper by Lucas et al(see 120)
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It has long been known that poor growth in infancy is associated with high morbidity and mortality in childhood. The earliest systematic records of infant mortality collated by the registrar general ascribed "debility" and "atrophy" as the principal causes of death in early life and the knowledge that undernourished babies were likely to grow up into fragile adults was one of the driving forces behind the provision of public welfare services for mothers and children.1 So great was the concern for the future of the newborn that a parliamentary commission surveyed the physical status of babies and school children across Great Britain in the early years of the past century.2 Growth charts, essential tools for such surveys, had been pioneered in clinics aimed at detecting and managing babies and children who failed to thrive,3 largely as a consequence of infectious diseases and poor feeding. Their widespread use
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