Background Vitamins and minerals are essential for growth and maintenance of a healthy
body, and have a role in the functioning of almost every organ. Multiple interventions have …

Background Cash transfer programs have grown increasingly popular and are now used as
interventions to target a wide array of health outcomes across many diverse settings …

Low and middle-income countries are experiencing the dual burden of malnutrition which is,
at least in part, attributable to changes in eating behaviours of children under age five …

Background After decades of decline since 2005, the global prevalence of
undernourishment reverted and since 2015 has increased to levels seen in 2010 to 2011 …

Purpose High-quality labor supply is inevitable to maintain sustainable and steady
economic growth. This study mainly explores the impact of the social pension system on the …

ABSTRACT Background Mexico's Prospera-Oportunidades-Progresa Conditional Cash
Transfer Program (CCT-POP) included the distribution of fortified food supplements (FFS) for …

This paper presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the
developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration, which has interlinked …

Health equality is an essential component of social justice, and the social policies should be
as conducive to promoting health equality as possible. Based on the data from China, this …

Background The impact of the Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Mexico was significant
but smaller than expected. Several bottlenecks related to program design and …

Investments in social assistance programmes (SAPs) have accelerated alongside interest in
using SAPs to improve health and nutrition outcomes. However, evidence of how design …