Growth Monitoring - GI
Growth Monitoring - GI
Growth Monitoring - GI
Eric Macharia
Aggrey Amwoga
Objectives
To discuss the roles of the following people
in growth monitoring:
Health worker
Community Health Worker
Mother/Caretaker
Mother and child booklet
Counseling the mother on Anthropometry
Definition of Key terms
Growth- Increase in the physical size of the body and
organs.
Monitoring- Keeping a regular track of something.
include:
I. Educating mothers on good nutrition and health
practices.
II. Taking the anthropometric measurements accurately.
III. Monitoring of the actual growth by observing the
anthropometric measurements.
IV. Teaching the mother how to use the MCH booklet by
understanding they are plotted and interpreted.
Role of community health workers
These are the people selected from communities to receive
training to some extent, but without a formal professional
certificate in order to expand health care and coverage. In
our local set-up, most of them are unpaid.
Some of their responsibilities include:
Workers.
Mother and Child Health Booklet (MoH)