RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Child growth (0-5 years), and the effect of entitlement to a milk supplement.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 831
OP 835
DO 10.1136/adc.56.11.831
VO 56
IS 11
A1 P C Elwood
A1 T J Haley
A1 S J Hughes
A1 P M Sweetnam
A1 O P Gray
A1 D P Davies
YR 1981
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/56/11/831.abstract
AB Twelve hundred and fifty-one pregnant women were contacted and their infants followed to age 5 years. Nine hundred and fifty-one (76%) children completed the trial. Measurements were made of birthweight, length, head circumference, and triceps skinfold at 10 days, and of weight, height, head circumference, and triceps at 5 years. Throughout the entire period of the study half the families, selected at random, were supplied with milk tokens entitling the mother, while pregnant, and all children under age 5 years, to 1 pint of milk a day at half its current price. The tokens led to a small increase in milk purchases by the families and to a small increase in milk drunk by the children. However no effect was detected in any growth measurement either in the total group, or in a more "vulnerable" group of children from the largest families.