[Methods of analysis of food and nutritional security programs: an experience in Brazil].
The development of methods that enable analysis of programs and public policies is a key point for their objectives to be attained. This study presents a Brazilian experience of analysis of two food and nutritional security programs in cities in Brazil's northeast region, namely the National Program for Vitamin A Supplementation, and monitoring health conditions of those included in the Family Allowance Program. The methodological stages included the definition of programs to be analyzed, data collection locations, the population participating in the research, collection procedures and data analysis. The methodology used made it possible to ascertain the perception of the different social actors involved in the operationalization of these programs, proving to be an important tool for the insertion of these actors, not only as objects of analysis, but also mainly as subjects of self-evaluation.
Departamento de Nutrição, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Joao Pessoa, PB, Brazil. alicetel@terra.com.br
Alice Teles de
AT
Carvalho
Erika Rodrigues de
ER
Almeida
Eduardo Augusto Fernandes
EA
Nilson
Juliana Amorim
JA
Ubarana
Irela Mazar
IM
Fernández
Maarten
M
Immink
D001938:Brazil; D005523:Food Supply; D006078:Government Programs; D006801:Humans; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*