Zhonghong.com, Shandong, September 23. Recently, the Daiyue District Center for Disease Control and Prevention went to Jiaoyu Town to carry out iodine deficiency testing work, and conducted a sample survey on the urinary iodine , salt iodine level, and goiter rate of the people in the town.
This survey selected 40 non-boarding primary school students aged 8-10 and 20 pregnant women in the early, middle and late pregnancy. By collecting urine samples and eating salt samples at home, the content of urine iodine and salt iodine is detected. After the investigation, staff from the district CDC conducted a lecture on "Health Education on Prevention and Control of Iodine Deficiency Diseases" at the town central primary school, interpreting the endemic disease prevention and control project in detail, and calling on students to participate together and actively pay attention to iodine deficiency . Students are required to write their learning experience based on the teaching content and pass on the knowledge they have learned to family members.
This iodine deficiency monitoring and investigation activity further enhanced the health education and health promotion of iodine deficiency diseases in the town, improved the awareness of iodine deficiency prevention and control knowledge among the masses, strengthened the organic combination of disease monitoring and prevention and control measures, and timely grasped the nutritional status of the iodine in the population and the growth and decline trends of the disease, providing a basis for timely adopting targeted prevention and control measures and scientific adjustment of intervention strategies. (Picture source: Jiaoyu Town People's Government)
Editor: Cao Tao
Review: Li Shan
