Household Consumption of Adequately Iodized Salt: A Multi-Country Analysis of Socioeconomic Disparities
Daniela M Sáez-Ramírez, Horacio Chacon-Torrico, Akram Hernández-Vásquez, Caterina Mian, Simona Censi · 2024
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Iodine deficiency still harms health in poorer countries, and adding iodine to salt is the main defense. The authors pooled household survey data from forty-nine low and middle income countries, gathered between 2005 and 2021. They asked how many households use salt with enough iodine, and how that share varies with wealth, place, and education. A combined analysis put the overall share at about eighty-three percent.
The averages hide sharp gaps. East Asia and the Pacific and Europe and Central Asia both reached about eighty-eight percent. Latin America and the Caribbean lagged far behind at about thirty-one percent. Poorer and rural households were less likely to have adequately iodized salt. The authors call for stronger public health efforts aimed at access, education, and price, to protect groups at highest risk of deficiency, above all children and pregnant women.
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| CREATOR | Daniela M Sáez-Ramírez, Horacio Chacon-Torrico, Akram Hernández-Vásquez, Caterina Mian, Simona Censi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |