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Nutrition and health programs in Latin America : targeting social expenditures

Title
  1. Nutrition and health programs in Latin America : targeting social expenditures / Guy P. Pfeffermann, Charles C. Griffin.
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  1. Washington, D.C., U.S.A. : World Bank ; Panama City, Panama : International Center for Economic Growth, [1989]
Author
  1. Pfeffermann, Guy Pierre.

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Additional authors
  1. Griffin, Charles C., 1951-
Description
  1. iv, 28 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. In most countries, nutrition and health programs are the primary means of raising or maintaining the consumption of basic necessities by the poor. In both areas, a persistent failure of consumption or a lack of timely access to services can have catastrophic consequences. This report examines the targeting of nutrition and health programs to protect the poor in six Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Mexico) during the economic crisis that began at the end of the 1970s and persisted through most of the first half of the 1980s. Food programs come in several varieties: general price supports, school lunch programs, mother-and-infant nutrition supplements, and acute malnutrition treatment programs. The six countries use many different methods to target nutrition programs, and the ones that have the best targeting records also tend to get the best results at the least cost.
Subject
  1. Lateinamerika
  2. Nutrition policy > Latin America
  3. Nutrition > Latin America
  4. Medical care > Latin America
  5. Food service
  6. Nutrition
  7. Nutrition surveys > Latin America
  8. Poverty > Latin America
  9. National health services > Latin America
  10. Poverty
  11. Food Services
  12. Health Services > economics
  13. Nutrition Surveys
  14. Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
  15. Poverty
  16. food service
  17. poverty
  18. Nutrition surveys
  19. National health services
  20. Food service
  21. Medical care
  22. Nutrition
  23. Nutrition policy
  24. Ernährungspolitik
  25. Ernährungssicherstellung
  26. Medical policy > Latin America
  27. Poor > Government policy > Latin America
  28. Public welfare > Latin America
  29. Unterernährung
  30. Ernährungssicherung
  31. Gesundheitswesen
  32. Öffentliche Sozialausgaben
  33. Latin America
  34. Latin America
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. "A World Bank publication in association with International Center for Economic Growth."--Cover.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 27-28.