“…Despite the limitations of the studies in relation to samples, age, diversity monitoring, and development screening tools, the prevalence of delay situations varies from 30 to 56% in cities in the states of Paraíba, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Goiás, and São Paulo,
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expressing a worrying situation in that these frequencies are 6-20 times more elevated than the deficits appointed by anthropometric indicators of growth (weight/age, weight/height, and height/age). Taking into consideration that growth delay indicators demonstrate that the situation of nutritional deficit is believed to be practically resolved even in the poorest regions of the country,
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the idea stands that the moment of valuing child development, in a way that does not deface even more the registration of its surveillance, in agreement with the age appointed in the CSC, during a child’s well visit, characterizing and deepening an oversight that already is unacceptable.…”