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Linda Berggren; Maria Waling; Cecilia Olsson – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: Previous research indicates that head teachers in Sweden frequently fail to see school lunch as part of the educational activities of a school. This study contributes to an understanding of how head teachers in Sweden perceive and experience current national policy intentions related to school lunch. Design: Qualitative inquiry.…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Food, School Activities, Administrators
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Byker Shanks, Carmen; Stenberg, Molly; Bark, Katie; Izumi, Betty; Hoff, Casey; Parks, Courtney A. – Health Education Journal, 2023
Introduction: Fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption is low among adolescents, and waste of these foods is high in school cafeterias. The objective of this research was to determine the impact of behavioural economic strategies and structural lunchroom changes on FV selection and waste in high-school lunch programmes using the collaborative efforts…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Food, Eating Habits, Wastes
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Akihiro, Maeta; Mizue, Oku; Kyoko, Takahashi – Health Education Journal, 2023
Objective: We investigated how students' interest in healthy eating changed after the introduction of on-site school lunch, prepared on campus, at a Japanese junior high school. Design: One-year follow-up study. Setting: Participants were 166 students in their second year of study at a public junior high school in Japan which introduced an on-site…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Student Interests, Eating Habits
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Persson Osowski, Christine; Fjellström, Christina – Health Education Journal, 2019
Background: Children are provided with food at school in various ways. In Sweden, free school lunches are provided to all children of compulsory school age. Internationally, Sweden is fairly unique in this sense, which makes the country an important example to study and reflect upon. Objective: This article aims to describe the welfare ideology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Taxes, Lunch Programs, Ideology