Naiá Ortelan, Márcia Furquim de Almeida, Elzo Pereira Pinto Júnior, Nivea Bispo, Rosemeire L Fiaccone, Ila Rocha Falcão, Aline Dos Santos Rocha, Dandara Ramos, Enny S Paixão, Rita de Cássia Ribeiro-Silva, Laura C Rodrigues, Mauricio L Barreto, Maria Yury T Ichihara
BACKGROUND: Preterm births increase mortality and morbidity during childhood and later life, which is closely associated with poverty and the quality of prenatal care. Therefore, income redistribution and poverty reduction initiatives may be valuable in preventing this outcome. We assessed whether receipt of the Brazilian conditional cash transfer programme - Bolsa Familia Programme, the largest in the world - reduces the occurrence of preterm births, including their severity categories, and explored how this association differs according to prenatal care and the quality of Bolsa Familia Programme management...
March 5, 2024: BMC Public Health