School food, politics and child health

School food, politics and child health.

OBJECTIVE An analysis undertaken jointly in 2009 by the UN World Food Programme, The Partnership for Child Development and the World Bank was published as Rethinking School Feeding to provide guidance on how to develop and implement effective school feeding programmes as a productive safety net and as part of the efforts to achieve Education for All. The present paper reflects on how understand...

Health of the School Child

OIR GEORGE NEWMAN, Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education, has issued his Report on " The Health of the School Child in 1922 " (His Majesty's Stationery Office. Is. 6d.). In spite of financial restrictions which have arrested many developments proposed in recent legislation and the unparalleled conditions of unemployment there was no reil reaction in 1922, "and the machinery which Loca...

School of Child & Adolescent Health

The Politics and Analytics of Health Policy

Let us start with an example of health policy analysis in action. Within that category of countries loosely known as ‘the West’, quite basic differences exist in attitudes to health policy and also actual health policy. Comparing the US with mainland Europe and indeed Canada, for example, one perceives a difference in attitude on the part of the majority towards collectivism and individualism i...

The Health of the School Child

tion, shows that, though many children's ailments appear to be trifling, they may be the beginning of serious diseases. The child is inspected, and, if found defective, is referred for treatment, is " followed up," and is subsequently re-inspected. The inspection accords with a recognised standard laid down by the Board in 1908, and takes place in its routine form at least thrice during the nin...