Perspectives on Sustainable Development in the Context of Public Health Issues

Racz Ioana-Codruta
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Racz Ioana-Codruta: PhD Fellow, SOP HRD/159/1.5/S/133675 Project, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Partner, Romania

Management of Sustainable Development, 2015, vol. 7, issue 1, 37-39

Abstract: Health is an integral part of sustainable development, a process that can’t be materialized if there is a high prevalence of diseases, a high percentage of those is due to environmental factors. An important component of health is the healthy nutrition, especially of children and pregnant women. Iodine is an essential micronutrient for a good nutrition that covers the physiological needs of the body, iodine deficiency having important consequences for mother and fetus, then for children, especially in the first years of life. The main role of iodine in the body is due to his importance for synthesis of thyroid hormones involved in growth and development of psychic and somatic body, starting with intrauterine life. Iodine deficiency was, and still is, a public health problem, globally the most affected countries are in Central Africa, central South America and northern Asia. Europe iodine deficiency is relatively lower. Multiple interventions were made to improve and even eradicate iodine deficiency disorders, in particular through the universal iodization of salt for human consumption, but must be supported in continuing efforts because this issue is not fully resolved to this day.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1515/msd-2015-0020

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