Food is medicine: actions to integrate food and nutrition into healthcare

S Downer, SA Berkowitz, TS Harlan, DL Olstad… - bmj, 2020‏ - bmj.com
Food is medicine: actions to integrate food and nutrition into healthcare Page 1 FOOD FOR
THOUGHT 2020 Food is medicine: actions to integrate food and nutrition into healthcare Sarah …

Immunization, urbanization and slums–a systematic review of factors and interventions

T Crocker-Buque, G Mindra, R Duncan… - BMC public health, 2017‏ - Springer
Abstract Background In 2014, over half (54%) of the world's population lived in urban areas
and this proportion will increase to 66% by 2050. This urbanizing trend has been …

Public policies of food and nutrition in Brazil: From Lula to Temer

FAG Vasconcelos, ML Machado, MAT Medeiros… - Revista de …, 2019‏ - SciELO Brasil
Objective To analyze public policies on food and nutrition in Brazil, with emphasis on the last
fifteen years (2003-2018). Methods Historical-documentary analysis based on a …

The Brazilian cash transfer program (Bolsa Família): a tool for reducing inequalities and achieving social rights in Brazil

JA Neves, FAG Vasconcelos, ML Machado… - Global Public …, 2022‏ - Taylor & Francis
Conditional cash transfer programs are strategies used by countries over the past two
decades, and they play a key role in reducing income inequalities and expanding access to …

Effectiveness of a pay-for-performance intervention to improve maternal and child health services in Afghanistan: a cluster-randomized trial

CY Engineer, E Dale, A Agarwal… - International journal …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
Background: A cluster randomized trial of a pay-for-performance (P4P) scheme was
implemented in Afghanistan to test whether P4P could improve maternal and child (MCH) …

Has India's national rural health mission reduced inequities in maternal health services? A pre-post repeated cross-sectional study

S Vellakkal, A Gupta, Z Khan, D Stuckler… - Health policy and …, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background: In 2005, India launched the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to
strengthen the primary healthcare system. NRHM also aims to encourage pregnant women …

Effectiveness of a conditional cash transfer programme on TB cure rate: a retrospective cohort study in Brazil

AW Torrens, D Rasella, D Boccia… - Transactions of the …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
Background Despite the efforts of the National Tuberculosis Programme, TB cure rates in
Brazil are sub-optimal. The End TB Strategy for post-2015 identifies conditional cash transfer …

[HTML][HTML] Conditional cash transfer programs and the health and nutrition of Latin American children

S Segura-Pérez, R Grajeda… - … de Salud Pública, 2016‏ - SciELO Public Health
Objective To 1) describe the benefits, conditions, coverage, funding, goals, governance, and
structure of well-established conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) in Latin America and …

Effect of a conditional cash transfer programme on leprosy treatment adherence and cure in patients from the nationwide 100 Million Brazilian Cohort: a quasi …

JM Pescarini, E Williamson, JS Nery… - The Lancet infectious …, 2020‏ - thelancet.com
Background Indirect financial costs and barriers to health-care access might contribute to
leprosy treatment non-adherence. We estimated the association of the Brazilian conditional …

Systematic review on the impact of conditional cash transfers on child health service utilisation and child health in sub-Saharan Africa

C Onwuchekwa, K Verdonck, B Marchal - Frontiers in public health, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Background: Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are interventions which provide assistance
in the form of cash to specific vulnerable groups on the condition that they meet pre-defined …