Iodine deficiency disorder elimination

IMPLEMENTATION OF IODINE DEFICIENCY DISORDER ELIMINATION PROGRAMS IN EUROPE... 

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WHO, UNICEF and ICCIDD. (2001). Assessment of the Iodine Deficiency Disorders and Monitoring Their Elimination (WHO/ NHD/01.1), WHO, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 1—107. 

Global Program for Elimination of Iodine Deficiency Disorders... 

WHO/UNICEF/ICCIDD. (May, 1996). Report on Regional Conference on the Sustainable Elimination of Iodine Deficiency Disorders in Africa by 2000. IDD Newsletter 13 (2). 

WFIO/UNICEF/ICCIDD. (1999). Progress towards elimination of iodine deficiency disorders. WHO/NHD/99.4. 

Healthcare Service Delivery in Achieving Sustained Elimination of Iodine Deficiency Disorders A Case Study, China... 

Prakash, R. (1997). Paper presented at Regional Consultation on Elimination of Iodine Deficiency Disorders in South East Asia, New Delhi, India, Febmary 1997. 

Mannar, V. (1999). Iodized Salt for the Elimination of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (Online). Available from http //www. iodinenetwork.net/documents/Iodized%20Salt%20for%20the% 20Elimination%20of%20IDD.pdf Accessed on July 14, 2007. 

Mannar, V. and Dunn, J.T. (1995). Salt lodization for the Elimination of Iodine Deficiency. The Netherlands International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders. 

Iodine Nutrition in Bulgaria Results from the National Strategy for Elimination of Iodine Deficiency Disorders in Bulgaria -Epidemiologic Studies on Risk Population Groups... 

Deficiency Disorders (Pr6-Iodo), and the Interinstitutional Committee for Prevention and Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders developed a Technical and Operational Handbook, under the coordination of the Ministry of Health (Brasil/ Ministdrio da Sadde, 2006). Designed to promote the sustainable virtual elimination of IDDs, the said program is guided by the following lines of action ... 

Ministry of Public Health, WHO, UNICEF, and ICCIDD. (2004). Review of Progress Towards Sustainable Elimination of Iodine Deficiency Disorders in Thailand. 

April 1996 Mali participated at the Conference on the Sustainable Elimination of Iodine Deficiency Disorders Africa by the Year 2000, which was hosted by the Government of Zimbabwe November 1997 The National Directorate for Public Health in Mali organized a workshop to revitalize the IDD program a national communication strategy for the utilization of iodized salt was developed... 

There is a great opportunity for a major triumph in global public health with the global elimrnation of brain damage due to iodine deficiency disorders, comparable to the elimination of small pox and polio. 

Hetzel, B.S. (2002). Eliminating iodine deficiency disorders The role of the International Council for Control of IDD in the global partnership round table discussion. Bull. WHO 80(3), 410 17. 

Iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) are among the most important global public health problems with approximately one billion people at risk worldwide(l). Iodine deficiency is not restricted to developing countries and persists on the European Continent(l). The successful elimination of this nutritional deficiency, which may be associated with a wide range of neurologic, developmental, and intellectual impairments, requires an effective monitoring and surveillance program. 

We can assume, that the residual iodine deficiency could be eliminated in Austria by increasing salt iodization as in Switzerland Results show, that the increase of iodine content in salt indeed is adequate to prevent iodine deficiency disorders. There was some anxiety, however, that the increased iodine intake would provoke a higher rate of thyrotoxicosis and autoimmime thyroiditis Our figures show that "latent hyperthyroidism" as well as "latent hypothyroidism" and "Hashimoto s Disease" increased since 1986, but these figures can partly be explained by more sensitive diagnostic tests In... 

The main objectives of the workshop have been to re-evaluate the status of iodine nutrition in all European countries and to discuss practical measures for the normalization of their iodine intake. In this section we broadly summarize the information and discussions of the workshop and formulate conclusions and recommendations for the elimination of iodine deficiency disorders in Europe. 

Figure 2 A mother and child from a New Guinea village who are severely iodine deficient. The mother has a large goiter and the child is also affected. The larger the goiter, the more likely it is that she will have a cretin child. This can be prevented by eliminating the iodine deficiency before the onset of pregnancy. (Reproduced from Hetzel BS and Pandav CS (eds.) (1996) SOS for a Billion The Conquest of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, 2nd edn. Oxford Oxford University Press.)...

In 1990 the United Nations Sub-Committee on Nutrition recognized IDD as a major international public health problem and adopted a global plan for the elimination of IDD by the year 2000 proposed by the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) working in close collaboration with UNICEF and WHO. 

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