Impact of National Egyptian school feeding program on growth, development, and school achievement of school children

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-400
Author(s):  
A. M. Metwally ◽  
Marwa M. El-Sonbaty ◽  
L. A. El Etreby ◽  
E. M. Salah El-Din ◽  
N. Abdel Hamid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
School Feeding ◽  
Feeding Program ◽  
Growth Development ◽  
School Feeding Program

Nutritional Supplementation of Disadvantaged Elementary-School Children

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 697-703
Author(s):  
David M. Paige ◽  
Angel Cordano ◽  
Shi-Shung Huang
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Elementary School Children ◽  
Disadvantaged Children ◽  
School Year ◽  
Feeding Programs ◽  
School Feeding ◽  
Feeding Program ◽  
School Feeding Program ◽  
Lunch Program

Nutritional reinforcement of disadvantaged elementary-school children is a recognized objective. Increased emphasis over the past few years has been placed on institutional feeding programs to upgrade the nutrition of children considered to be at risk.1,2 A traditional vehicle for attempting to improve the nutritional status of these youngsters is the "type A" school feeding program. This program represents one of the largest federal efforts in the field of public health, and is important in the nutrition of over 80% of the nation's children.3 Recent reports, however, indicate that the lunch program through the provision of one third of the daily requirements will not fully meet its objective of contributing to an improved nutritional profile in disadvantaged children, 4,5 It would, therefore, seem appropriate that in addition to providing lunch and an occasional breakfast in a conventional pattern, emphasis be placed on providing additional nutritional reinforcement through an acceptable, convenient, palatable, and nutritionally enriched supplement which would assist in improving the nutrition of children.6 It is the purpose of this paper to report on the provision of a nutritionally fortified supplement, containing low lactose levels, to disadvantaged elementary-school children and the changes, if any, in: (1) hematocrit; (2) height; (3) weight; and (4) absenteeism in the supplemented and nonsupplemented children studied. METHODOLOGY Population The 177 children completely studied in the experimental school receiving the supplement represent all children in the first three grades remaining in school and participating in all elements of the study over the entire school year. The children ranged in age from 5.1 to 9.1 years.

scholarly journals Intergenerational nutrition benefits of India’s national school feeding program

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suman Chakrabarti ◽  
Samuel P. Scott ◽  
Harold Alderman ◽  
Purnima Menon ◽  
Daniel O. Gilligan
Keyword(s):  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
Feeding Programs ◽  
School Feeding ◽  
Feeding Program ◽  
Socioeconomic Strata ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Carry Over ◽  
School Feeding Program ◽  
Global Agenda ◽  
Target Children

AbstractIndia has the world’s highest number of undernourished children and the largest school feeding program, the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme. As school feeding programs target children outside the highest-return “first 1000-days” window, they have not been included in the global agenda to address stunting. School meals benefit education and nutrition in participants, but no studies have examined whether benefits carry over to their children. Using nationally representative data on mothers and their children spanning 1993 to 2016, we assess whether MDM supports intergenerational improvements in child linear growth. Here we report that height-for-age z-score (HAZ) among children born to mothers with full MDM exposure was greater (+0.40 SD) than that in children born to non-exposed mothers. Associations were stronger in low socioeconomic strata and likely work through women’s education, fertility, and health service utilization. MDM was associated with 13–32% of the HAZ improvement in India from 2006 to 2016.

scholarly journals Analysis of the national school feeding program in the municipality of Viçosa, state of Minas Gerais

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naruna Pereira Rocha ◽  
Mariana De Santis Filgueiras ◽  
Fernanda Martins de Albuquerque ◽  
Luana Cupertino Milagres ◽  
Ana Paula Pereira Castro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Nutritional Security ◽  
School Feeding ◽  
National School ◽  
Feeding Program ◽  
Food And Nutritional Security ◽  
School Feeding Program

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the implementation of the Brazilian National School Feeding Program as a food and nutritional security policy in public schools. METHODS: This a cross-sectional study, with a quantitative and qualitative approach, carried out with 268 schoolchildren aged eight to nine years from the public school system of Viçosa, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 2015. Interviews were carried out using semi-structured questionnaires with the children, parents, cooks, nutritionists, trainer of the Technical Assistance and Rural Extension Company, and president of the School Feeding Council. In order to analyze the implementation of the National School Feeding Program in Viçosa, we evaluated the direct weighing of the food served in the schools using mechanical balances with a capacity of up to 10 kg and the perception of the social players involved in the implementation of the National School Feeding Program. The children were questioned about the acceptance of and adherence to the food offered, in addition to the habit of bringing food from home. Parents reported knowledge about the School Feeding Program and Council. The qualitative analysis consisted of content analysis and quantitative analysis using the chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test, and Mann-Whitney test. We adopted the statistical significance of 5% for quantitative analysis. RESULTS: Children reported low adherence to the school feeding program and most of them used to bring food from home. Irregularities were identified in the implementation of the National School Feeding Program, such as: inadequate number of nutritionists, suspension of Council meetings, inadequate infrastructure in the areas of preparation and distribution of meals, lack of training of cooks, lack of nutritional adequacy of the food offered, and lack of actions on food and nutritional education. The Program complied with the recommendations for purchasing food from family farms. CONCLUSIONS: The National School Feeding Program presented many irregularities in Viçosa. It is important to monitor the problems identified for better reformulation and planning of the Program, in order to guarantee the food and nutritional security of the children served.

scholarly journals O associativismo no município de Riacho de Santana - BA: desafios e perspectivas para o crescimento

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Antonio Domingos Moreira ◽  
Arlete Ramos dos Santos ◽  
Emerson Antônio Rocha Melo de Lucena
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Family Farming ◽  
Public Programs ◽  
School Feeding ◽  
National School ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Feeding Program ◽  
School Feeding Program

This article presents an outline research that had as its main objective to discuss the collective organization of family production on associations in the municipality of Riacho de Santana - BA. To this end, we seek to highlight public programs and policies, such as the Food Acquisition Program (PAA) and the National School Feeding Program (PNAE), aimed at self-management of family farming within associations. The data were collected through questionnaires of open questions with presidents/representatives of the associations, whose analysis was based on the assumptions of Historical Dialectic Materialism - MHD. Upon analyzing the collected material, we concluded that the Riacho de Santana - BA associations were created to contribute to the permanence of workers in the field, the struggle for land and access to different public policies, and that these associations have been struggling to overcome the existing fragmentation in the social groups that make up family production in the researched context.

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