Iodine and the "near" eradication of cretinism.
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The eradication of intellectual disability from iodine deficiency in Western countries is one of the great public health triumphs of 20th-century child health care. Yet the problem persists today in many parts of the world. This article explores why a strategy so successful in the West has proven difficult to export to certain other contexts and how new kinds of thinking may point the way forward.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Pediatrics
دوره 135 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015