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. 2013:55 Suppl 2:S199-205.

[Food assistance programs in Mexico, coverage and targeting]

[Article in Spanish]
Ma del Carmen Morales-Ruán  1 , Teresa Shamah-Levy  1 , Verónica Mundo-Rosas  1 , Lucía Cuevas-Nasu  1 , Martín Romero-Martínez  2 , Salvador Villalpando  1 , Juan Ángel Rivera-Dommarco  1
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[Food assistance programs in Mexico, coverage and targeting]

[Article in Spanish]
Ma del Carmen Morales-Ruán et al. Salud Publica Mex. 2013.

Abstract

Objective: To describe the distribution of social food assistance programs in Mexico.

Materials and methods: Information about 36 150 households from the National Health and Nutrition Survey (ENSANUT 2012) was included. The distribution of the social assistance food programs by characteristics as rural/urban locality, country region, ethnicity, socioeconomic level and nutritional status was observed.

Results: At the national level, food assistance programs with the greater coverage are Oportunidades (reaching 18.8% of the population), Liconsa (milk distribution, 9.7%) and School Breakfasts (12.2%). The program that assists in the best way the target population is Oportunidades, where 75% of its beneficiaries belong to the "low" and "lower" socioeconomic levels, in contrast to Liconsa and School Breakfasts programs, where only 42% and 55% of the beneficiaries are in such levels, respectively.

Conclusion: Current focus and application of the food assistance programs must be adjusted under the perspective of wellness, health and nutrition of the children population.

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