Mexican aid program benefits children.(Update)(Progresa)(Brief Article)

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Mexican aid program benefits children.(Update)(Progresa)(Brief Article)

Lane, Trevor. International Family Planning Perspectives. The Alan Guttmacher Institute Sept 2004.
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Low-income, rural children who participated in Progresa-a large-scale Mexican welfare program that included a nutritional component-experienced increased growth and a decreased rate of anemia by the end of a trial assessing the nutritional impact of the intervention. (1) Families enrolled in the program received micronutrient-fortified food, health care, a general cash allowance and help in paying for children's education. Researchers analyzed data from a random sample of children aged 12 months or younger at study entry in 1998; these children came from 205 communities that took part in the program in 1998 and from 142 that joined one year

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later. Among children who were younger than six months at enrollment and living in the poorest households (those with the bottom 50% of socioeconomic status scores), the increase in height in 2000 was significantly greater if participation in the program had been two years rather than one year (26.4 cm vs. 25.3 cm), after adjustment for age and body length at study entry. The overall age-adjusted anemia rate in 1999 was lower among children who had already received the intervention for one year than among those who had not yet joined the program (44% vs. 55%).

1. Rivera JA et al., Impact of the Mexican Program for Education. Health, and Nutrition (Progresa) on rates of growth and anemia in infants and young children a randomized effectiveness study. Journal of the American Medical Association, 2004, 291(21):2563-2570.

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