The impact of cash transfers to poor women in Colombia on BMI and obesity: prospective cohort study

Introduction—Prevalence of obesity is rising in Latin America, is increasingly affecting socially disadvantaged groups, particularly women. Conditional cash transfers are recently established welfare interventions in the region. One, Familias en Accion, transfers ~20 % of average monthly income to women in Colombia’s poorest families. Previous work has found that families buy more food as a result