title: [Access to food stamps and nutritional status of adults from Northeast and Southeast Brazil, 1997].
abstract: Access by adults (>/=20 years of age) to the Workers' Food Program was investigated in a probabilistic sample of the Brazilian population living in the Northeast and Southeast regions. Only 19.9% (Northeast = 11.7% and Southeast = 24.9%) of the working population were beneficiaries of the Program. Receiving the benefit increased in direct proportion to income in both regions, but with a huge gap in the NE: 19.% of individuals in the 5th income quintile and only 3.6% in the 1st quintile were beneficiaries of the Program. Overweight (BMI >/= 25kg.m(-2)) was more prevalent (38.5%) than underweight (BMI < 18.5). Underweight was more prevalent in women (6.1%) than men (3.4%). More overweight than underweight individuals were beneficiaries of the Program (31.7 and 23.5%, respectively). These data indicate that the Program fails to provide food supplementation to the most needy workers in the two regions of Brazil, i.e., its original target population.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Nutrição Social, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ, 24040-115, Brasil.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Burlandy
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Anjos
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D005522:Food Services; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009752:Nutritional Status; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
vernacular_title: Acesso a vale-refeição e estado nutricional de adultos beneficiários do Programa de Alimentação do Trabalhador no Nordeste e Sudeste do Brasil, 1997.