Forty days of free school meals as a tool for introducing market-based healthy school meal systems in 35 Danish schools
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Forty days of free school meals as a tool for introducing market-based healthy school meal systems in 35 Danish schools. / Brinck, N.; Hansen, M. Weinreich; Kristensen, N. Heine.
I: Perspectives in Public Health, Bind 131, Nr. 6, 2011, s. 280-282.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Forty days of free school meals as a tool for introducing market-based healthy school meal systems in 35 Danish schools
AU - Brinck, N.
AU - Hansen, M. Weinreich
AU - Kristensen, N. Heine
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Aims: When approaching school meal systems, different concepts can guide the design of the food preparation and serving activities. This paper presents a government-planned intervention concept of 40 days of free school meals. The argument behind this intervention was to kick-start the implementation of healthy school meal systems in Danish schools. This paper argues that the initiative (in reality) invited the establishment of a service system concept, which dominated the initiative and led to a lack of involvement of important key players needed in health promotion.Methods: The method used for data collection was semi-structured, qualitative interviews.Results: The main results from a systematic examination of the 35 participating schools show that the systems were mainly organized with external suppliers, and only a few of the 35 schools succeeded in establishing a user-paid school meal system afterwards.Conclusions: The established meal systems contained a lack of embedding factors, which is pointed to as one of the main challenges to a user-financed school meal system. The experiences of these 35 participating schools show that a period of free school meals is not a sustainable tool for achieving the goal of establishing new, healthy and user-paid school meals.
AB - Aims: When approaching school meal systems, different concepts can guide the design of the food preparation and serving activities. This paper presents a government-planned intervention concept of 40 days of free school meals. The argument behind this intervention was to kick-start the implementation of healthy school meal systems in Danish schools. This paper argues that the initiative (in reality) invited the establishment of a service system concept, which dominated the initiative and led to a lack of involvement of important key players needed in health promotion.Methods: The method used for data collection was semi-structured, qualitative interviews.Results: The main results from a systematic examination of the 35 participating schools show that the systems were mainly organized with external suppliers, and only a few of the 35 schools succeeded in establishing a user-paid school meal system afterwards.Conclusions: The established meal systems contained a lack of embedding factors, which is pointed to as one of the main challenges to a user-financed school meal system. The experiences of these 35 participating schools show that a period of free school meals is not a sustainable tool for achieving the goal of establishing new, healthy and user-paid school meals.
KW - implementation
KW - school meal systems
KW - user involvement
U2 - 10.1177/1757913911419910
DO - 10.1177/1757913911419910
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:80755168518
VL - 131
SP - 280
EP - 282
JO - Perspectives in Public Health
JF - Perspectives in Public Health
SN - 1757-9139
IS - 6
ER -
ID: 212500979