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THOUGHT 2020 Food is medicine: actions to integrate food and nutrition into healthcare Sarah …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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) …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Home visiting programmes are increasingly recognized as one of the most effective
interventions to improve child health and development in low-income settings. However, the …