%0 Journal Article
%T Iodine deficiency and its associated factors among primary school children in Anchar district, Eastern Ethiopia
%A Berhe Gebremichael
%A Bezatu Mengistie
%A Kedir Teji Roba
%A Muzemil Muktar
%J Archive of "Pediatric Health, Medicine and Therapeutics".
%D 2018
%R 10.2147/PHMT.S165933
%X Iodine deficiency is a major public health problem in Ethiopia. Most of the studies in Ethiopia were done on clinical goiter without assessing the subclinical iodine deficiency. Therefore, there was a need to study the magnitude and associated factors of iodine deficiency among school-age children in Eastern Ethiopia
%K iodine deficiency
%K primary school
%K children
%K Anchar district
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6130311/