INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CONTROL OF IODINE DEFICIENCY DISORDERS THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CONTROL OF IODINE DEFICIENCY DISORDERS (ICCIDD) is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization dedicated to sustained optimal iodine nutrition and the elimination of iodine deficiency
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THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CONTROL OF IODINE DEFICIENCY DISORDERS (ICCIDD) is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization dedicated to sustained optimal iodine nutrition and the elimination of iodine deficiency throughout the world. Its activities have been supported by the international aid programs of Australia, Canada, Netherlands, USA, and also by funds from UNICEF, the World Bank and others. ICCIDD
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Towards the global elimination of brain damage due to iodine deficiency--the role of the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders.
762 International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, C/Centre for Health Promotion, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, 72 King William Road, North Adelaide, SA 5006, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] made up of scientists and public health professionals from a range of disciplines available to assist national programmes; (iii) The development of effective national progra...
متن کاملEliminating iodine deficiency disorders--the role of the International Council in the global partnership.
Iodine deficiency is the most common preventable cause of brain damage. WHO estimates that some 2.2 billion people are at risk from iodine deficiency in 130 countries. A programme of universal salt iodization was established in 1994 with the aim of eliminating the problem by 2000. This paper reports progress in this field, with particular reference to the primarily scientific role of the Intern...
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589 IODINE IS ABUNDANT AROUND US but mostly contained in compartments dissociated with human consumption. If natural diet included 1 or 2 teaspoonfuls of sea-bottom mud per week, there would be no iodine deficiency. On the other hand, to obtain the same amount of iodine from rainwater or most other fresh-water sources, daily intake of water has to be in the order of 30 liters or more (1). Accor...
متن کاملThe development of a global program for the elimination of brain damage due to iodine deficiency.
Iodine deficiency is the most common preventable cause of brain damage with more than 2 billion people from 130 countries at risk. The global problem of iodine deficiency has been redefined by a readily transmitted population concept, with an easy acronym - the concept of the iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) - referring to all the effects of iodine deficiency in a population, that can be total...
متن کاملThyroid volumes in a national sample of iodine-sufficient swiss school children: comparison with the World Health Organization/International Council for the control of iodine deficiency disorders normative thyroid volume criteria.
OBJECTIVE The determination of goiter prevalence in children by thyroid ultrasound is an important tool for assessing iodine deficiency disorders. The current World Health Organization/International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (WHO/ICCIDD) normative values, based on thyroid volume in iodine-sufficient European children, have recently been questioned, as thyroid volume...
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