 |
 |
 |
Nutritional Anaemias
|
Book : Nutritional Anaemias
Language : English Library : Social Phsician Publish Place : Geneva Volume : 405 Publish Date : 00 1968 Publisher : World Health Organization WHO Book Type : Report Book Number : 3554 |
 |
INDEX
CONTENTS
Introduction........
1. The problem.......
2. Standardization of methods
Vitamin B12 and folate in serum .
Iron in serum..........
Haemoglobin..........
3. Criteria for the diagnosis of anaemia .
4. WHO studies of anaemia of pregnancy
Israel .............
Warsaw, Poland........
New Delhi, India........
Vellore, Madras State, India . . .
Mexico
Caracas, Venezuela.......
Therapeutic trials........
5. Iron deficiency............
Absorption of food iron......
Loss of body iron.........
-Tissue iron stores
Role of parasitic infection in iron loss Iron requirements.........
6. Vitamin B12 and folate deficiency Criteria for the diagnosis of deficiency Requirements...........
7. Prevention of nutritional anaemias.........
General sanitary and dietary measures......
Food enrichment...............
Iron supplementation in pregnancy...... .
Mass treatment of iron deficiency in schoolchildren
8. Co-ordination of research on nutritional anaemia
WHO collaborative studies...........
9. Summary of recommendations............
Acknowledgements..................
Annex. Results of WHO studies of anaemia of pregnancy
