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Progress towards millennium development goal 1 in northern rural Nicaragua : Findings from a health and demographic surveillance site
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- Perez, Wilton, 1979- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa,Internationell barnhälsa och nutrition/Persson
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- Zelaya Blandón, Elmer (author)
- Asociación para el Desarrollo Económico y Social de El Espino (APRODESE), León, Nicaragua
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- Persson, Lars-Åke, 1947- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa,Internationell barnhälsa och nutrition/Persson
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- Peña, Rodolfo (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Internationell mödra- och barnhälsovård (IMCH),Internationell barnhälsa och nutrition/Persson
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- Källestål, Carina, 1954- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa,Internationell barnhälsa och nutrition/Persson
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- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2012
- 2012
- English.
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In: International Journal for Equity in Health. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1475-9276. ; 11:1
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- BACKGROUND:Millennium Development Goal 1 encourages local initiatives for the eradication of extreme poverty. However, monitoring is indispensable to insure that actions performed at higher policy levels attain success. Poverty in rural areas in low- and middle-income countries remains chronic. Nevertheless, a rural area (Cuatro Santos) in northern Nicaragua has made substantial progress toward poverty eradication by 2015. We examined the level of poverty there and described interventions aimed at reducing it.METHODS:Household data collected from a Health and Demographic Surveillance System was used to analyze poverty and the transition out of it, as well as background information on family members. In the follow-up, information about specific interventions (i.e., installation of piped drinking water, latrines, access to microcredit, home gardening, and technical education) linked them to the demographic data. A propensity score was used to measure the association between the interventions and the resulting transition from poverty.RESULTS: Between 2004 and 2009, poverty was reduced as a number of interventions increased. Although microcredit was inequitably distributed across the population, combined with home gardening and technical training, it resulted in significant poverty reduction in this rural area.CONCLUSIONS:Sustainable interventions reduced poverty in the rural areas studied by about one- third.
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