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The Healthy School Canteen Programme : A Promising Intervention to Make the School Food Environment Healthier
Joint Authors
Mensink, Fréderike
Smeets, Astrid
Schwinghammer, Saskia Antoinette
Source
Journal of Environmental and Public Health
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-8, 8 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2012-05-28
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The environment can exert a strong influence on people's food decisions.
In order to facilitate students to make more healthy food choices and to develop healthy eating habits, it is important that the school food environment is healthy.
The Healthy School Canteen programme of The Netherlands Nutrition Centre is an intervention that helps schools to make their cafeteria's offering healthier.
A descriptive study was conducted by an independent research agency to survey the perceptions, experiences, and opinions of users of the programme (school directors, parents, students, and health professionals).
Results show that directors and students of participating schools perceive their cafeteria's offering to be healthier after implementing the programme than prior to implementation.
Next, further important results of the study are highlighted and relations with other projects, caveats, and practical recommendations are discussed.
It is concluded that the Healthy School Canteen programme is a promising intervention to change the school food environment but that further research is needed to ultimately establish its effectiveness.
Also, it will be a challenge to motivate all schools to enroll in the programme in order to achieve the goal of the Dutch Government of all Dutch school cafeterias being healthy by 2015.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Mensink, Fréderike& Schwinghammer, Saskia Antoinette& Smeets, Astrid. 2012. The Healthy School Canteen Programme : A Promising Intervention to Make the School Food Environment Healthier. Journal of Environmental and Public Health،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-8.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Mensink, Fréderike…[et al.]. The Healthy School Canteen Programme : A Promising Intervention to Make the School Food Environment Healthier. Journal of Environmental and Public Health No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-8.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Mensink, Fréderike& Schwinghammer, Saskia Antoinette& Smeets, Astrid. The Healthy School Canteen Programme : A Promising Intervention to Make the School Food Environment Healthier. Journal of Environmental and Public Health. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-470379
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-470379