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The impact of cash transfers to poor women in Colombia on BMI and obesity: prospective cohort study

INTRODUCTION: Prevalence of obesity is rising in Latin America, is increasingly affecting socially disadvantaged groups, particularly women. Conditional cash transfers are recently established welfare interventions in the region. One, Familias en Accion, transfers ~20% of average monthly income to w...

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Autores principales: Forde, Ian, Chandola, Tarani, Garcia, Sandra, Marmot, Michael G., Attanasio, Orazio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22143619
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2011.234