(o) The “Healthy schools” programme was implemented by the Ministries of Education and Health and the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) in order to improve Guatemalan children's health in a coordinated fashion.

According to studies by the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) and the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare, the only basic cereal of which there has been a sufficient supply in the past decade to meet the minimum needs of the population is maize.

Approximately 800,000 persons lack the income necessary for access to the 2,187 calories per day per person which are necessary for survival and which constitute the basic food basket designed by MAGFOR, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP).

In 1999, the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare, in cooperation with the Society of Endocrinology and the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Technical and Financial Cooperation of the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) and Merck Laboratories, carried out a study under the name “Tiroides móvil” (“Thyroid mobile”) in six towns in six different departments.