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To improve attendance at mobile clinics for children food incentives were offered to attenders in a rural municipality in northern Nicaragua. Clinic attendance in villages where food incentives were offered was higher than that in control villages (96.5% vs 63.3% of child population, p less than 0.005). When food was later offered in control villages, attendance rose by 60.2% to full attendance (p less than 0.001). Some of the large amounts of non-emergency food aid available could be offered as incentives to increase the use of basic health services in developing countries.
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