Health education for microcredit clients in Peru: a randomized controlled trial

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Poverty, lack of female empowerment, and lack of education are major risk factors for childhood illness worldwide. Microcredit programs, by offering small loans to poor individuals, attempt to address the first two of these risk fact...

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Main Authors: Fernald Lia CH, Hamad Rita, Karlan Dean S
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-01-01
Series:BMC Public Health
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/11/51