Remaining challenges in Tanzania's efforts to eliminate iodine deficiency

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1032-1038

  Assey, Vincent D ^a,b   Mgoba, Celestin ^a   Mlingi, Nicholaus ^a   Sanga, Alfred ^a   Ndossi, Godwin D ^a   Greiner, Ted ^b,e   Peterson, Stefan ^c,d  

^a Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre   (Tanzania)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^e PATH   (United States)

Author keywords

Goitre prevention and control; Iodised oil; Iodised salt; Tanzania; Urinary iodine deficiency

Indexed keywords

IODINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOITER; HOME; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; IODINE DEFICIENCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GOITER; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IODINE; PREVALENCE; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; TANZANIA;

EID: 34548429711     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980007666695     Document Type: Article

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