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0289/2021 - Coverage of food consumption assessment in children participating in the Healthy Growing Program – Brazil, 2015-2018
Cobertura de avaliação do consumo alimentar em crianças participantes do Programa Crescer Saudável – Brasil, 2015-2018

Author:

• Luana Kelly Silva Borges - Borges, L. K. S. - <luanaksborges@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3229-5793

Co-author(s):

• Fernando Ferraz do Nascimento - do Nascimento, F. F. - <fernandofn@ufpi.edu.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0625-0097
• Márcio Dênis Medeiros Mascarenhas - Mascarenhas, M.D.M. - <mdm.mascarenhas@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-2763
• Malvina Thais Pacheco Rodrigues - Rodrigues, M.T. P. - <malvina@ufpi.edu.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5501-0669


Abstract:

The study aimed to compare the prevalence of food consumption assessment coverage in children under 10 years old, before and after the implementation of the Healthy Growing Program (PCS). In this sense, a cross-sectional study was conducted with data from 548 municipalities registered in the PCS available in the Food and Nutritional Surveillance System of the Ministry of Health. The indicator coverage of food consumption assessment was analyzed, according to geographic regions. The Chi-square test was performed and the Prevalence Ratios (PR) and their respective 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) were estimated. The coverage of assessment of food consumption increased from 0.25% in 2015 to 1.78% in 2018 (PR=7.09; 95%CI 7.00;7.18). The regions with the highest and lowest growth in food consumption coverage were the South and Midwest, respectively. Although the increase in the coverage of food consumption assessment has been below the 5% target established by the PCS, there has been an improvement in the monitoring of the nutritional status of children, making it necessary to develop actions that favor the mapping of the food and nutritional scenario of children in Brazil.

Keywords:

Health Services Coverage. Food and Nutritional Surveillance. Food Consumption. Kid.

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Borges, L. K. S., do Nascimento, F. F., Mascarenhas, M.D.M., Rodrigues, M.T. P.. Coverage of food consumption assessment in children participating in the Healthy Growing Program – Brazil, 2015-2018. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2021/Sep). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/coverage-of-food-consumption-assessment-in-children-participating-in-the-healthy-growing-program-brazil-20152018/18188?id=18188



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