… Future research should identify the true prevalence of rickets and osteomalacia, their role
in bone fragility and infant mortality, and best screening and public health prevention tools. …

… Nutritional rickets is a major public health problem in many … Predominantly caused by severe
vitamin D deficiency, rickets can … on rickets of public health concern caused by nutritional …

… Rickets has been a public health problem for children living in temperate climates for many
centuries. The causes of rickets … In the calciopenic forms of rickets, the typical biochemical …

… pxxvii) Hess’s contribution to child health will always be revered; however, his ability to
translate clinical knowledge into successful public health initiatives in the eradication of rickets is …

… Nutritional rickets remains a public health problem in many countries, despite dramatic
declines in the prevalence of the condition in many developed countries since the discoveries of …

… However, public health implementation of daily supplementation is more challenging with a
… Treatment of nutritional rickets has traditionally been with vitamin D2 or D3, often given as a …

… public health intervention to prevent nutritional rickets. In this manuscript, we document the
periods in history when nutritional rickets … nutritional rickets remains a significant public health …

… In Qatar and other countries of the Arabian Peninsula region, vitamin D deficiency and
nutritional rickets remain public health problems owing to a lack of routine vitamin D …

… Numerous studies have highlighted the problem, resulting in public health measures to
promote awareness of the condition among affected communities (eg ‘the Stop …

… battle against iodine deficiency disorders, to convince the World Health Organization and
its member states to start an implementation program to eradicate nutritional rickets by 2030. …