{"id":10574,"date":"2026-03-03T10:36:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/?page_id=10574"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:36:37","slug":"british-children-are-not-shrinking-but-child-height-is-increasing-for-the-wrong-reasons-trends-and-inequalities-in-child-measurement-programme-data-for-england-scotland-and-wales","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/?page_id=10574","title":{"rendered":"British children are not shrinking, but child height is increasing for the wrong reasons: trends and inequalities in child measurement programme data for England, Scotland and Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Publications\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/?page_id=10432\"><span style=\"color: #828282; font-size: 8pt;\"><< previous publication<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Moscrop, A., Dorling, D. and Cole, T. (2026)<br \/>\n<strong>British children are not shrinking,<br \/>\nbut child height is increasing for the wrong reasons:<br \/>\ntrends and inequalities in child measurement programme data<br \/>\nfor England, Scotland and Wales <\/strong><br \/>\nJournal of Epidemiology &#038; Community Health<br \/>\n3 March 2026<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/icon_pdf.png\" alt=\"PDF download\" title=\"PDF download\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" \/> <a title=\"Download\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/dannydorling_publication_id10574.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download PDF<\/a> (<1 MB) <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/icon_internet.png\" alt=\"Weblink\" title=\"Weblink\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" \/> <a title=\"Weblink\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/jech-2025-225029\" target=\"_blank\">Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Publications\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/?page_id=10258\"><span style=\"color: #828282; font-size: 8pt;\">next publication >><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10575,"parent":70,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10574","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10576,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10574\/revisions\/10576"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}