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The impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família conditional cash transfer program on children’s health care utilization and health outcomes

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, April 2014
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
The impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família conditional cash transfer program on children’s health care utilization and health outcomes
Published in
BMC Public Health, April 2014
DOI 10.1186/1472-698x-14-10
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Authors

Amie Shei, Federico Costa, Mitermayer G Reis, Albert I Ko

Abstract

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs provide poor families with cash conditional on investments in health and education. Brazil's Bolsa Família program began in 2003 and is currently the largest CCT program in the world. This community-based study examines the impact of Bolsa Família on child health in a slum community in a large urban center.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 5 2%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
India 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 248 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 55 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 34 13%
Student > Bachelor 30 12%
Researcher 29 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 4%
Other 39 15%
Unknown 61 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 47 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 37 14%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 27 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 21 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 5%
Other 37 14%
Unknown 77 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 February 2023.
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#1,356,353
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#1,543
of 17,511 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,297
of 239,200 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#24
of 257 outputs
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