Prevention of Micronutrient Deficiencies

Prevention of Micronutrient Deficiencies
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1998-03-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 030906029X

Micronutrient malnutrition affects approximately 2 billion people worldwide. The adverse effects of micronutrient deficiencies are profound and include premature death, poor health, blindness, growth stunting, mental retardation, learning disabilities, and low work capacity. Preventing Micronutrient Deficiencies provides a conceptual framework based on past experience that will allow funders to tailor programs to existing regional/country capabilities and to incorporate within these programs the capacity to address multiple strategies (i.e., supplementation/fortification/food-based approaches/public health measures) and multiple micronutrient deficiencies. The book does not offer recommendations on how to alleviate specific micronutrient deficienciesâ€"such recommendations are already available through the publications of diverse organizations, including the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Micronutrient Initiative, World Bank, United Nations Childrens' Fund, and the World Health Organization. Instead, this volume examines key elements in the design and implementation of micronutrient interventions, including such issues as: The importance of iron, vitamin A, and iodine to health. Populations at risk for micronutrient deficiency. Options for successful interventions and their cost. The feasibility of involving societal sectors in the planning and implementation of interventions. Characteristics of successful interventions. The book also contains three in-depth background papers that address the prevention of deficiencies of iron, vitamin A, and iodine.

Iodine and the Brain

Iodine and the Brain
Author: G. Robert Delong
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1461307651

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda on March 21-23. 1988. jointly sponsored by the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) and the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health. Several themes converged to make this meeting timely. The first is an increasing awareness of iodine deficiency disorders as a world-wide problem of public health and a preventable cause of mental deficiency. and as a subject of scientific effort. Increased interest in these problems owes a great deal to accessibility to remote and under developed areas of the world where iodine deficiency persists. As with any subject. greater scrutiny yields unexpected complexity and interest. It is true that provision of iodine. typically as iodized salt, is the necessary and sufficient preventative for iodine deficiency disorders. without including endemic cretinism. This provision is a governmental, economic and social problem. Apart from this, however, the scientific and medical problem of iodine deficiency and its effect on brain development and function is one of great interest and importance for developmental neurology and psychology. Even though the specific preventative agent is known, we do not totally understand the neurobiological questions raised.

Endemic Cretinism

Endemic Cretinism
Author: John Dennison
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2011-09-25
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1461402816

Responding to a renewed interest in the growing problem of iodine deficiency worldwide, Drs. Charles Oxnard and Peter Obendorf, along with experienced translator and anatomist John Dennison, take a fresh look at the classic text, Der endemische Kretinismus, published in 1936 by Springer. Translated here for the first time into English, this landmark text will be a welcome resource for researchers confronting the problem of iodine deficiency. Oxnard and Obendorf point out that there is very little detailed knowledge or numerical data on cretinism available in the English-speaking world. In addition, highly-renowned Professor Basil S. Hetzel, recently-retired World Health Organization Chairman of the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, published in 2009 with Dr Chen Zu-pei on the resurgence of iodine deficiency in China. Indeed, throughout the entire developing world there may be as many as two billion people at risk to iodine deficiency; perhaps three quarters of a billion have goiter, and ten million may be cretins. Even in developed countries, iodine deficiency is re-emerging (as in New South Wales in 19% of children) with the result of significantly reduced numbers of gifted children (though this is not cretinism per se). Certain to be of significant interest to a wide range of researchers, health providers and professionals, including government health administrators, this English translation of Endemic Cretinism is a major contribution to the literature.

Environmental Goitrogenesis

Environmental Goitrogenesis
Author: Eduardo Gaitan
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1989-03-31
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780849367281

A balanced view of the causes and the prevention of the iodine defi-ciency disorders is presented in this comprehensive text. The mechanisms of goitrogenesis are explained, along with preven-tive and control measures. Descriptions of environmental com-pounds and other ecological as well as host factors involved in this process are highlighted. Public health and economic impact of the problems and treatment of individual cases are discussed. Overview sections include: Environmental goitrogenesis Sulfurated organics Flavonoids Polyhydroxyphenols and phenol derivatives Phthalate esters and phthalic acid derivatives Polyhalogenated and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons Hydroxypyridines Inorganics Epidemiological aspects of environmental goitrogenesis Goiter endemias attributed to goitrogens in foodstuffs Goiter endemias attributed to chemical and bacterial pollution of water supplies

S.O.S. for a Billion

S.O.S. for a Billion
Author: Basil S. Hetzel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 466
Release: 1996
Genre: Iodine deficiency diseases
ISBN: 9780195640021

This Book Records The Coordinated Global Strategy Against Iodine Deficiency Which Has Been Identified As The Most Common Preventable Cause Of Mental Defect In The World Today.

Towards the Eradication of Endemic Goiter, Cretinism, and Iodine Deficiency

Towards the Eradication of Endemic Goiter, Cretinism, and Iodine Deficiency
Author: PAHO/WHO Technical Group on Endemic Goiter, Cretinism, and Iodine Deficiency. Meeting
Publisher:
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1986
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

This book presents the scientific papers, discussions, and recommendations of the 1983 Lima, Peru PAHO/WHO Technical Group Meeting. The text is divided into 5 parts, examining the various topics in the subjects (pathophysiology, special problems, methods of diagnosis and treatment, geographic documentation, and recommendations.

A Simple Matter of Salt

A Simple Matter of Salt
Author: Renate Lellep Fernandez
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2024-07-19
Genre:
ISBN: 0520415191