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Tasmania: doing its wee bit for iodine nutrition

Judy A Seal, Eric M Johnson, Zelda Doyle and Kelly Shaw
Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05632.x
Published online: 20 October 2003

Judy A Seal,* Eric M Johnson, Zelda Doyle, Kelly Shaw§


  • 2 Public and Environmental Health, Department of Health and Human Services, GPO Box 125, Hobart, TAS 7001
  • 3 Broad Street Consultants, Tasmanian Iodine Monitoring Program, Lauderdale, TAS.


Correspondence: judy.seal@dhhs.tas.gov.au

  • 1. Gibson H. Surveillance of iodine deficiency disorders in Tasmania 1949-1984. Hobart: Department of Health Services, 1995.
  • 2. World Health Organization. Assessment of iodine deficiency disorders and monitoring their elimination: a guide for programme managers. Geneva: WHO, 2001.
  • 3. Hynes K. Urinary iodine status of Tasmanian primary school children: final project report. Hobart: Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania, 2001.
  • 4. Guttikonda K, Burgess JR, Hynes K, et al. Recurrent iodine deficiency in Tasmania, Australia: a salutary lesson in sustainable iodine prophylaxis and its monitoring. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2002; 87: 2809-2815.
  • 5. McDonnell CM, Harris M, Zacharin MR. Iodine deficiency and goitre in schoolchildren in Melbourne, 2001. Med J Aust 2003; 178: 159-162. <MJA full text>

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