School food policy at Dutch primary schools: room for improvement? Cross-sectional findings from the INPACT study
Open Access
- 12 April 2013
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 13 (1) , 339
Abstract
Schools can play an important role in the prevention of obesity, e.g. by providing an environment that stimulates healthy eating habits and by developing a food policy to provide such an environment. The effectiveness of a school food policy is affected by the content of the policy, its implementation and its support by parents, teachers and principals. The aim of this study is to detect opportunities to improve the school food policy and/or implementation at Dutch primary schools. Therefore, this study explores the school food policy and investigates schools’ (teachers and principals) and parents’ opinion on the school food policy.Keywords
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