HTHSCI 2S03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: World Health Organization, Ketorolac, Tonsillectomy
3 May 2016
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Standardized charts are used to track children"s growth over time. Working in a primary health care clinic, you are responsible for documenting the height and weight of children who are seen in the clinic and plotting this information on the standardized growth chart. His caregiver has brought him to the clinic for her well-child visit. John"s height to be 80 centimeters (cm): determine john"s height compares to that of the population, given that on average 2-year old boys 87 cm tall (sd = 3. 3 cm). Assume that the distribution of the height among the population of 2-year old boys is normally distributed. Use z score when comparing to the population! Z score= [raw score (x) mean (x bar)] / sd. Therefore johnny is taller than 2% of the population or shorter than 98% of the population: compare your estimation of john"s height to that of the world health organization (who)
