description: '**Concept**\r\nA person’s body height.\r\n**Purpose**\r\nBody height is used for various reasons, including to measure growth, such as in babies, children or adolescents, to calculate body surface area, to for example calculate the correct amount of medication, or in combination with body weight to calculate the Body Mass Index. Height is also used to determine a person’s nutritional state. \r\n\r\nThis healthcare information information model offers the option to record a person’s body height.\r\n\r\n**Example Instances**\r\n\r\n**Traceability to other Standards**\r\nThis health and care information model is in accordance with the information model template Measurement v1.0.'
package_name: healthdata.be.r4.cbb
derivation: specialization
name: HdBeBodyHeight
abstract: true
type: https://fhir.healthdata.be/StructureDefinition/LogicalModel/body_height
elements:
  height_value:
    short: HeightValue
    _definition:
      extension:
      - url: http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/translation
        extension:
        - {url: lang, valueCode: nl-NL}
        - url: content
          valueMarkdown: "Het element bevat de waarde van de gemeten lichaamslengte in centimeters. \r\nDe lichaamslengte is de lengte van het menselijk lichaam van hielbodem tot kruin, in het algemeen gemeten in staande houding. Bij zeer kleine kinderen of patiënten die niet kunnen staan wordt de lichaamslengte in gestrekte liggende houding gemeten."
    type: Quantity
    _short:
      extension:
      - url: http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/translation
        extension:
        - {url: lang, valueCode: nl-NL}
        - {url: content, valueMarkdown: LengteWaarde}
    index: 0
  height_date_time:
    short: HeightDateTime
    _definition:
      extension:
      - url: http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/translation
        extension:
        - {url: lang, valueCode: nl-NL}
        - {url: content, valueMarkdown: Datum en (eventueel) tijd van de waarneming van de lichaamslengte.}
    type: dateTime
    _short:
      extension:
      - url: http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/translation
        extension:
        - {url: lang, valueCode: nl-NL}
        - {url: content, valueMarkdown: LengteDatumTijd}
    index: 1
  comment:
    short: Comment
    _definition:
      extension:
      - url: http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/translation
        extension:
        - {url: lang, valueCode: nl-NL}
        - {url: content, valueMarkdown: Toelichting op de meting van de lichaamslengte.}
    type: string
    _short:
      extension:
      - url: http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/translation
        extension:
        - {url: lang, valueCode: nl-NL}
        - {url: content, valueMarkdown: Toelichting}
    index: 2
  position:
    short: Position
    _definition:
      extension:
      - url: http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/translation
        extension:
        - {url: lang, valueCode: nl-NL}
        - {url: content, valueMarkdown: De positie tijdens de meting van de gemeten persoon.}
    type: CodeableConcept
    _short:
      extension:
      - url: http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/translation
        extension:
        - {url: lang, valueCode: nl-NL}
        - {url: content, valueMarkdown: Positie}
    binding: {strength: extensible, valueSet: 'https://fhir.healthdata.be/ValueSet/Position'}
    index: 3
package_version: 0.6.0-alpha2
class: logical
kind: logical
url: https://fhir.healthdata.be/StructureDefinition/LogicalModel/HdBe-BodyHeight
base: http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Element
version: null
required: [height_value, height_date_time]