Anthropometry Sports Physique Evaluation

Anthropometry is useful because it provides - A practical way of describing the problem - The best general proxy for constraints to human welfare of the poorest, including dietary inadequacies, infectious diseases and other environmental health risks Strong and feasible predictors, at individual and population levels, of subsequent ill health, functional impairment and/or mortality Under some circumstances, an appropriate indicator of the success or failure of interventions directed toward the many economic and environmental factors underlying the deprivation syndrome.