Acesso a vale-refeição e estado nutricional de adultos beneficiários do Programa de Alimentação do Trabalhador no Nordeste e Sudeste do Brasil, 1997

• Autor(a) principal: Burlandy, Luciene
• Data de Publicação: 2001
• Outros Autores: Anjos, Luiz Antonio dos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://cadernos.ensp.fiocruz.br/ojs/index.php/csp/article/view/1580
• topic: Programas de Nutrição; Serviços de Saúde Ocupacional; Estado Nutricional; Saúde do Adulto

Access by adults ( > or = 20 years of age) to the Workers' Food Program was investigated in a probabilistic sample of the Brazilian population living in the Northeast and Southeast regions. Only 19.9% (Northeast = 11.7% and Southeast = 24.9%) of the working population were beneficiaries of the Program. Receiving the benefit increased in direct proportion to income in both regions, but with a huge gap in the NE: 19.% of individuals in the 5th income quintile and only 3.6% in the 1st quintile were beneficiaries of the Program. Overweight (BMI > or = 25kg.m-2) was more prevalent (38.5%) than underweight (BMI < 18.5). Underweight was more prevalent in women (6.1%) than men (3.4%). More overweight than underweight individuals were beneficiaries of the Program (31.7 and 23.5%, respectively). These data indicate that the Program fails to provide food supplementation to the most needy workers in the two regions of Brazil, i.e., its original target population.