School Health and Nutrition Monitoring: What Practitioners and Policy Makers Can Learn from China

This paper studies the historical evolution of China’s gender relations through the lens of housework time allocation. In particular, we highlight the role played by social class and income. Drawing upon data from the Chinese Health and Nutrition Survey, we find that during the period 1991–2011, being a peasant or earning less than the spouse was increasingly associated with a higher share of housework. The market process appears to have indirectly improved the social status of women (most likely rural women) married to peasant husbands as measured by the former’s declining housework share. Such changes, however, have not challenged traditional patriarchal norms in the countryside and have even facilitated the rise of a new market-based patriarchy. Policy makers should empower women by tackling the different faces of patriarchy as a whole. JEL Classification: B51, J16, P16

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Providing short-term primary preventive crisis intervention for children in schools

Supporting Children When Parents Separate ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447345947.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 125-148

Author(s):

Mervyn Murch

Keyword(s):

Crisis Intervention ◽

School Health ◽

Prima Facie ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Prima Facie Case ◽

Children And Young People ◽

Main Challenge ◽

Preventive Mental Health ◽

State Schools ◽

Case Based

This chapter discusses some ideas about how the Caplanian approach to preventive mental health — specifically the method of crisis intervention — might be applied in state schools, a non-stigmatic site for primary prevention. It argues that there is a strong prima facie case, based both on evidence from children and young people and from theory, for finding ways and means to apply crisis intervention methods of support for children in schools to help them cope with stressful upheavals associated with intense interparental conflict, separation and divorce. The main challenge is how to persuade practitioners and policy makers and educational and school health services that this is a promising approach worth developing.

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P06 Delivery of a school health and nutrition programme for kenyan children: a feasibility study

Archives of Disease in Childhood ◽

10.1136/archdischild-2015-308599.6 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 100 (Suppl 3) ◽

pp. A3.1-A3

Author(s):

B Eder ◽

J Bogie ◽

D Magnus

Keyword(s):

Feasibility Study ◽

School Health ◽

Health And Nutrition ◽

Nutrition Programme

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The Evolution of School Health and Nutrition in the Education Sector 2000–2015 in sub-Saharan Africa

Frontiers in Public Health ◽

10.3389/fpubh.2016.00271 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Bachir Sarr ◽

Meena Fernandes ◽

Louise Banham ◽

Donald Bundy ◽

Amaya Gillespie ◽

...

Keyword(s):

School Health ◽

Education Sector ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Health And Nutrition ◽

Sub Saharan

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Marketing foods to children through product packaging: prolific, unhealthy and misleading

Public Health Nutrition ◽

10.1017/s1368980012001231 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 15 (9) ◽

pp. 1763-1770 ◽

Cited By ~ 40

Author(s):

Kaye Mehta ◽

Clare Phillips ◽

Paul Ward ◽

John Coveney ◽

Elizabeth Handsley ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Childhood Obesity ◽

Nutritional Value ◽

South Australia ◽

Food Products ◽

High Volume ◽

Product Packaging ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Health And Nutrition ◽

Food And Beverage

AbstractObjectiveTo investigate marketing techniques used on the packaging of child-oriented products sold through supermarkets.DesignFood and beverage products which met criteria for ‘marketed to children’ were recorded as child-oriented. The products were analysed for food categories, nutritional value, and type and extent of marketing techniques used.SettingA major supermarket chain in Adelaide, South Australia.SubjectsChild-oriented food and beverage products.ResultsOne hundred and fifty-seven discrete products were marketed to children via product packaging; most (75·2 %) represented non-core foods, being high in fat or sugar. Many marketing techniques (more than sixteen unique marketing techniques) were used to promote child-oriented food products. Claims about health and nutrition were found on 55·5 % of non-core foods. A median of 6·43 marketing techniques per product was found.ConclusionsThe high volume and power of marketing non-core foods to children via product packaging in supermarkets should be of concern to policy makers wanting to improve children's diet for their health and to tackle childhood obesity. Claims about health or nutrition on non-core foods deserve urgent attention owing to their potential to mislead and confuse child and adult consumers.

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Prevalence of Anaemia in Children of 6 Months to 59 Months in Narayanganj, Bangladesh

Journal of Dhaka Medical College ◽

10.3329/jdmc.v19i2.7084 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 126-130 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

MK Uddin ◽

MH Sardar ◽

MZ Hossain ◽

MM Alam ◽

MF Bhuya ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Young Children ◽

Rural Areas ◽

National Level ◽

Age Groups ◽

Haemoglobin Concentration ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Health And Nutrition ◽

Nutrition Policies ◽

Specialized Hospital ◽

Urban And Rural Areas

Objective: To determine the prevalence of anaemia in children of 6 to 59 months old in Narayanganj, Bangladesh to help policy makers to formulate health and nutrition policies in national level. Methods: In 2009, a representative sample of 767 young children (age ranging from 6 to 59 months) had their haemoglobin concentration measured. The sampling process was in three stages: at first, 5 Upazila hospitals, 1 District hospital and a 200 bedded specialized hospital were randomly selected to represent the whole district and its 5 geographic urban and rural areas. Next, using census lists, 15 census sectors were randomly chosen. Finally, 767 children of 6-59 months were selected. Blood was collected by vein puncture and haemoglobin concentration was measured with a haemoglobin meter. Data were analysed to determine prevalence of anaemia. Results: The prevalence of anemia among the children of 5-59 months old was 40.9% for the district as a whole. Prevalence in the municipal region of Narayanganj was 40.9%. The rural areas had the highest prevalence of 66.9%. Prevalence was almost two times higher in children of 6-23 months in comparison to children of 24-59 months i.e. 61.8% and 31.0% respectively. The mean haemoglobin concentrations in the younger and older age groups were 10.4(±1.5) g/ dl and 11.4(±1.4) g/dl respectively. There is no difference found between the sexes. Conclusion: This is the first assessment of anaemia prevalence among young children in Narayangaj, Bangladesh. As there is very high prevalence of anaemia among the children studied in Fatulla upazila, especially those in the age group 6-23 months, public health interventions are needed here most. Key words: Anaemia; iron deficiency anaemia; haemoglobin; child heath; Bangladesh. DOI: 10.3329/jdmc.v19i2.7084J Dhaka Med Coll. 2010; 19(2) : 126-130

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School Health and Nutrition: Policy and Programs

Food and Nutrition Bulletin ◽

10.1177/15648265050262s209 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 26 (2_suppl2) ◽

pp. S186-S192 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Donald Bundy

Keyword(s):

School Health ◽

Low Cost ◽

Cost Effective ◽

School Age Children ◽

Nutrition Interventions ◽

Middle Income ◽

Health And Nutrition ◽

Nutrition Programs ◽

The World ◽

The Impact

This paper argues that there is now reliable evidence that ill health and malnutrition affect education access, participation, completion, and achievement, and that school-based health and nutrition programs can provide a cost-effective and low-cost solution. International coordination around this issue has been helped by a consensus framework to “Focus Resources on Effective School Health (FRESH),” developed jointly by UNESCO, WHO, UNICEF, Education International, and the World Bank, and launched at the World Education Forum in Dakar in April 2000 as part of the global effort to achieve the goal of Education for All (EFA). The need for school health and nutrition programs as part of EFA actions is now recognized by both countries and development partners, and examples of successful practical sector programs that have gone to scale are presented for both low- and middle-income countries. This paper argues that, despite this progress, there are two key unresolved issues related to the targeting of nutrition interventions toward school-age children. The first concerns the role of food as an incentive for participation in education, and the second concerns the appropriate target age group for nutrition interventions. It is suggested that finding clear answers to these key policy questions in nutrition could profoundly influence the impact of future school health and nutrition programs.

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