Abstract:
Child growth and development represent essential life stage in human beings. Monitoring growth of children has been recommended as a simple, cheap and affordable method of detecting early growth and help in taking measure to overcome abnormal patterns of growth and health promotion. Inadequate controlled child health lead to several health inconvenient such as neonatal mortality, autism, delay growth and chronic diseases like heart, blood pressure, Respiratory diseases .As child grows, information survey of the early data provides effectiveness of health status of the child and the overall population in general. Moreover, there is no direct data management that
can help as a referral for health care practitioner in the third world countries. The
development of a community based support platform was implemented to help rural
population to frequently evaluate the life progress of the people therein by use of child
information. In this system, the anthropometric measurements will be determined
to provide a growth status of child under surveillance. In this system, the Sleep
Apnea detection has been interfaced with the system as a predictor of the risk of
respiratory disorders in infant that can rise when no early control was made. For
storage requirements, a Micro SD card Module was provided to hold the memory card
and save all data while taking measurement. The arm circumference were measured
with a standard deviation of 0.29, 0.40, 0.46, 0,37 and 0.30 for 5 measurements. The
test results of the system has shown that the system can reduce the measurement
error faced in rural areas, and can be interfaced with the health sectors for well being
of the population. It is expected that the implementation of this system in rural area
will overcome abnormal growth and related defects.
