Efectividad De Programas De Reducción De La Pobreza en La Nutrición Infantil y Los Determinantes Económicos De La Desnutrición en Países De Escasos Recursos

In order to define the effectiveness of interventions addressed to poverty reduction and the degree of effect that the economic determinants have in the nutrition in rural and poor areas of low-resource countries, we performed a revision based on publications indexed to Medline (accessed by PUBMED) and the Cochrane Library (CL) up to year 2005. We chose the studies about interventions/programmes of family economic improvement that have as objective to reduce the malnutrition and those addressing malnutrition determinants. The methodological quality of the researches was evaluated according to the criteria and classification of the CL, and we selected three articles about effectiveness of economic interventions in the malnutrition and eleven articles about economic determinants of malnutrition. We found that the upgrading of the family income can improve the malnutrition while enhancing the acquisitive power of the homes and the number of calories taken, especially amongst the poores...