The impact of two decades of conditional cash transfers on child health in Latin America: An integrated evaluation and forecasting analysis to mitigate effects of the economic …

Abstract:

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic, Climate change, and Conflict/war (3C’s) slowed down the progress of the achievements of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and they even reversed years of progress in child deaths. On the other hand, social programs can contribute to mitigating these effects. We aimed to investigate the effect of conditional cash-transfer programs (CCT) coverage on child health in Latin-America and the Caribbean (LAC) and forecast the relationship between these programs and under-five mortality rate (U5MR) up to 2030 in the context of the 3C’s and current global economic crisis. Methods: This study has a multicountry municipal-level design, covering 7,204 municipalities in Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico (BEM). We estimated the impact of CCT target coverage on child hospitalizations and mortality, adjusting for relevant factors, using fixed-effects negative binomial models in 4,882 …

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2023

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