[Access to the school food program and nutritional status of schoolchildren in Northeast and Southeast Brazil, 1997]. / Acesso à alimentação escolar e estado nutricional de escolares no Nordeste e Sudeste do Brasil, 1997.
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; 23(5): 1217-26, 2007 May.
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ABSTRACT
Access by schoolchildren (7-10 years of age) to the School Food Program was investigated in a probabilistic sample of the Brazilian population living in the Northeast and Southeast regions in 1996-97. Among children enrolled in public schools, 87.4% had lunch at school 77.9% in the Northeast, 93.7% in the Southeast, and 77.9% and 90.7% in the rural and urban areas, respectively. Stunting was observed in 13.2% of children (13.8% of boys and 12.6% of girls) and was most prevalent in the rural Northeast (22%) and least in the urban Southeast (8.5%). Stunting was more prevalent in children out of school (27.9%) or enrolled in schools that did not supply lunch (17.9%). Prevalence of overweight was relatively high (9.6%) and similar between boys and girls, but was more prevalent in children who had lunch at school (9.8%) as compared to children attending schools without lunch programs (5.5%). These data suggest inadequate geographic, economic, and biological criteria in the School Food Program.
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Assunto principal:
Instituições Acadêmicas
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Transtornos da Nutrição Infantil
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Estado Nutricional
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Serviços de Alimentação
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Obesidade
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Brasil
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Ano de publicação:
2007
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Article