Developed as part of the Child and Adolescent Health Profile Project, this annotated bibliography is intended as a reference for professionals interested in key dimensions of children's health. Citations are grouped into the following four categories: (1) background information on child health issues, (2) child health indicators and health status measures, (3) mainly national child health profiles, and (4) health indexes. Providing a backdrop for profile development, Section 1 lists publications that can help readers gain an overview of the key child health issues and the role of data in informed policymaking and planning. Section 2 contains references to publications about statistics used to measure the health status of children; among topics addressed are the definition of health status measures and data validity, reliability, and availability. References to compendia of child health measures are included in Section 3. Section 4 contains references to measures which summarize data from two or more components of health status or quality of life and which purport to reflect the health status of an individual or defined group. Publications addressing more than one topic are categorized according to their major emphasis. Most of the materials were published since 1980; the few references predating 1980 have been included because they represent particularly significant contributions to the field. (RH)