Usages and Applications of Anthropometry in Public Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Public Health Statistics and Risk Assessment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2023) | Viewed by 12923
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Anthropometry is the study of the human body dimensions and shape in relation to societal standards about growth, nutrition, obesity, and, for example, public accessibility. In that process, the ease of collecting, storing, analyzing, and visualizing data and instruments to collect anthropometric has changed during the last few decades.
We know from the validation of self-reported anthropometry that people will lie towards the mean, and therefore, the measured estimated extreme values will not be reliable. Apart from tape measures and GPM or Harpenden anthropometers, more and more 3D scanning methods are used with scanners that take 10–50 3D pictures per second and create 4D anthropometry, but low-cost mobile 3D applications are also available.
Having collected 1D, 2D, 3D, or 4D data of human bodies, more and more software applications are used to extract the body quantities and process them into meaningful visual communication such as tables and graphs, animations, and videos and to compare them against standards in society. Three-dimensional scanning has an advantage in relation to monitoring obesity patients because it is now easy to study where on the body the body fat is growing or disappearing when 2 consecutive 3D body scans with a few months of difference in time are overlayed and show the body-shape differences in a colorful so-called “heatmap”.
In this Special Issue, we are calling for papers to showcase the great variety of performances that have been achieved in this area. Topics may be divided in methodology or in applications. I would encourage you to write a paper that will highlight the expanding methodology and increased use that have emerged in recent decades in public health using 1D, 2D, 3D, and 4D anthropometry—1D meaning here tape measuring, 2D taking a flat surface picture, 3D taking a 3D surface scan, and 4D collecting data from a moving body (part).
Dr. Johan Molenbroek
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- 3D anthropometry
- obesity
- inclusive design
- software
- digital
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