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Anthropometry indicators are a measure of the health and developmental status of children based on the child's age, sex, height and weight. ANTHRO software can be used by health professionals to compare the growth of individual children with the growth patterns of a large reference population of the same age and sex. ANTHRO is based on the 1978 NCHS/CDC/WHO growth reference. It requires the sex, height, weight, and age of children to calculate normalized anthropometric z-values, percentiles and percent-of-median. It can use dBase files for batch processing and has an anthropometric calculator. Software and Hardware RequirementsANTHRO is a DOS-based program which operates on IBM compatible microcomputers with at least 640K of Random Access Memory (RAM). It requires PC/MS-DOS Version 2.1 or greater or Windows 3.x/95/98/NT/2000. Installation InstructionsBefore installing and running the software, please read the information
contained in the User
Manual To install ANTHRO, click on the link below which will download the
program to your computer. Once the installation file is downloaded,
double-click on INST_ANT.EXE to create a C:\Anthro directory. To run the
program, go to the C:\Anthro directory and double-click on ANTHRO.EXE.
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