Description of nutrient consumption based on the level of industrial food processing: national Survey on Nutrition and Health of2005.

Technological advances and changes in lifestyles reflect in a greater consumption of processed and ultra-processed foods compared to natural ones. Using data from the National Survey on Nutrition and Health, the consumption of these foods and their relation to living conditions were described in three age groups of Argentina (infants aged 6-23 months, children aged 2-5 years, and women aged 10-49 years). Consumption among infants 6-23 months old is high in nutrients from natural foods: calcium (75.

[Alternatives for adopting policies centered on access to medicines].

Latin America is adopting regulations that bear on medicinal costs and spending. The regulations have four main goals: i) to guarantee a competitive market, ii) to ensure affordability for individual consumers (commercial channel), iii) to contain public spending on medicines (institutional channel), and iv) to guarantee efficient spending on medicines. The experience of Latin America differs from that of countries in developed regions.

[Health impact and treatment costs of community-acquired pneumonia in children in the first level of public attention in Argentina].

Unlabelled: Community acquired pneumonia in children remains an important cause of childhood deaths throughout the world that can be prevented by the use of antibiotics and access to medical care. Both were reduced in 2001 when Argentina suffered a severe social crisis. Among the responses to the crisis, the Remediar Program provided free essential medicines to the socially vulnerable population.

[Cost-benefit of a prevention and treatment program to reduce iron deficiency in Argentina].

Objectives: To estimate the direct and indirect cost of iron deficiency (ID) and iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) in Argentina and compare it with the cost of a prevention and treatment program.

Methods: Analysis of a prior scenario to gage the relative cost-benefit of an IDA prevention and treatment program for all low-income children and expectant mothers without social coverage/benefits in Argentina. The economic consequences of ID and IDA were estimated as direct (cost of care for premature birth) and indirect costs (future lost productivity due to poor cognitive development due of children with ID and current reduced productivity of adults with IDA) employing the specific methodology designed by The Micronutrient Initiative (Ottawa, Canada).

[Underprescription of iron and clinical practice variability at the primary care level of public medical attention in Argentina].

Unlabelled: Iron deficiency and anemia have a very high prevalence and serious consequences for infants and pregnant women. Since late 2002, the Remediar Program provided free iron to the vulnerable population. Question arises whether free provision favors access to the drug.

[Variability in the management of bronchiolitis in the public first level of attention in Argentina].

Unlabelled: Bronchiolitis is a serious public health problem generating a great demand at the primary care level.

Objective: To describe the frequency of diagnosis of and prescription for bronchiolitis at the primary care level in Argentina; and to estimate variability in clinical practice.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective observational study based on the Remediar Program with cross comparisons of diagnosis and prescriptions by individual provinces.