Using the infrastructure of a conditional cash transfer program to deliver a scalable integrated early child development program in Colombia: Cluster randomized controlled trial

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 349, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Attanasio, Orazio P ^a   Fernández, Camila ^b   Fitzsimons, Emla O A ^c   Grantham McGregor, Sally M ^d   Meghir, Costas ^e   Rubio Codina, Marta ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; BAYLEY SCALES OF INFANT DEVELOPMENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD WELFARE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL STATUS; STIMULATION; ADULT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HOME CARE; INFANT; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECREATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; COLOMBIA; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICRONUTRIENTS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84907510519     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g5785     Document Type: Article

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