Meredith H V
Growth. 1979 Jun;43(2):95-104.
The focus of this paper is on rural-urban differences in human body size during the period between ages 8 years and 15 years. Groups of village and city residents are compared on standing height, body weight, and other somatic dimensions. Wide variation is found: from data collected during 1955--1972, urban children and youths in Costa Rica, Finland, Jamaica, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and South Africa are larger than their rural coevals by more than 3.0 cm in standing height, and 2.0 kg in body weight; while from measures taken during 1889--1910, urban children and youths in East Germany and England are smaller than their rural peers by 1.2 cm to 2.3 cm in standing height, and 0.6 kg to 0.8 kg in body weight. Intermediate differences characterize groups in Bulgaria, France, Ghana, Italy, Japan, Surinam, the Soviet Union, and the United States.
本文的重点是8岁至15岁期间城乡人群在身体尺寸方面的差异。对农村和城市居民群体的身高、体重及其他身体维度进行了比较。结果发现差异很大：从1955年至1972年收集的数据来看，哥斯达黎加、芬兰、牙买加、立陶宛、波兰、罗马尼亚和南非的城市儿童和青少年比农村同龄人身高高出3.0厘米以上，体重重2.0千克以上；而从1889年至1910年的测量数据来看，东德和英国的城市儿童和青少年比农村同龄人身高矮1.2厘米至2.3厘米，体重轻0.6千克至0.8千克。保加利亚、法国、加纳、意大利、日本、苏里南、苏联和美国的群体呈现出中等差异。
