[Evaluation of a state social program including a nutritional component implemented in the city of Cordoba for the elderly. 1999].
Actually the nutrition programmes had become into a fundamental resource for people living in low social conditions, to cover their feeding requires. The elderly retired persons with high socio-economic vulnerability are the direct beneficiaries of a social programme that includes a nutritional intervention executed by the PAMI.


OBJECTIVE
Evaluate the ProBienestar programme at Córdoba Capital city during 1999.


METHODS
Descriptive and transversal study.
Older aged persons from 60 years old or more (n = 330) and assistance units (n = 26) TECHNIQUES: Survey observation


METHODS
Focal criterions, accessibility, food assistance nutritional quality, socio-economic status, nutrition specialists participation, beneficiaries satisfaction assessed into the following dimensions "satisfaction with the including requirements", "food assistance regularity", "adjustment to the beneficiaries food consumption standard", "food quality".


RESULTS
The beneficiaries are between 60 and 74 years aged; most of them are widows and separated women that live with their sons or/and daughters or/and grandchildren. The most are owners of the house they live in. There is a different opinion between beneficiaries and assistance units' responsible at the moment of establish the including criterions. The food assistance is regular and geographic and administrative accessible. There is some difficult by the way of the older aged beneficiaries to recall the food aid boxes. The nutritional quality of the complement for one-person box was assessed as good, while for the two-persons boxes the quality downs. It is adequate to the food consumption standard of the older aged beneficiaries.


CONCLUSIONS
The satisfaction degree of the beneficiaries is high. (73%).
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Cátedra Nutrición en Salúd Pública, Escuela de Nutrición, F.C.M., U.N.C.
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D000368:Aged; D001118:Argentina; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003257:Consumer Product Safety; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006078:Government Programs; D006285:Health Planning; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors