甲状腺肿是严重危害山区人民身体健康的一种疾病。近些年来,各地开展饮水、食盐加碘防治工作,取得了一定效果。但是由于这个病的发生与地域环境有密切关系,许多流行地区一经停止人工供碘,疾病又复上升。因此,加碘防治的办法只是应急之需,尚难达到治本之目的。为了有效地贯彻执行毛主席关于“预防为主”的卫生工作方针, Goiter is a disease that seriously endangers the health of people in mountainous areas. In recent years, drinking water and salt iodization prevention and control have been carried out all over the country and achieved certain results. However, due to the close relationship between the occurrence of this disease and the geographical environment, the disease has been rising again once the supply of iodine is stopped in many endemic areas. Therefore, Iodine prevention and control measures are only emergency needs, it is still difficult to achieve the purpose of permanent cure. In order to effectively implement Chairman Mao’s health work policy of “prevention first”