Current global iodine status and progress over the last decade towards the elimination of iodine deficiency

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 518-525

  Andersson, Maria ^a   Takkouche, Bahi ^a,b   Egli, Ines ^a   Allen, Henrietta E ^a   De Benoist, Bruno ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Child; Goiter, endemic epidemiology prevention and control; Health status indicators; Iodine deficiency therapeutic use urine; Meta analysis; Population surveillance methods; Prevalence; Reference values; Sodium chloride, Dietary therapeutic use; World health

Indexed keywords

IODINE; META-ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GOITER; HUMAN; IODINE DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT MONITORING; POPULATION RISK; SCHOOL CHILD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES; GOITER, ENDEMIC; HUMANS; IODINE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 22344442793     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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