Action - GNPR 2016-2017: School health and nutrition (q11) Programa Nacional de Alimentación Complementaria Escolar - Monitoring children's growth in schools - School age children (SAC)

Programme: GNPR 2016-2017: School health and nutrition (q11) Programa Nacional de Alimentación Complementaria Escolar

Programme description

These programmes and actions were reported by countries for the 2nd WHO Global Nutrition Policy Review 2016-2017 module on actions related to school health and nutrition programmes. Programme objectives: reduce or prevent child undernutrition (stunting, wasting, micronutrient deficiencies); reduce or prevent childhood overweight or obesity; foster healthy diet and lifestyle habits; educate children and improve knowledge about healthy diet and lifestyle habits; improve school attendance; improve academic performance; support the agriculture sector by creating farm to school linkages (e.g. cereals, milk, fruit and vegetables supply). Components of the school health and nutrition programme include: training of school staff on nutrition; hygienic cooking facilities and clean eating environment in schools; provision of school meals/school feeding programme; nutrition education included in school curriculum; monitoring of children's growth; safe drinking water available free of charge; school gardens.

Programme type

Other

References

WHO (2018) Global Nutrition Policy Review. Country progress in creating enabling policy environments for promoting healthy diets and nutrition

http://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/policies/global_nut_policyrevi...

The Global Nutrition Policy Review 2016–2017 is the report of the second comprehensive analysis of nutrition-related policy environment, coordination mechanisms, available capacities and actions being taken in 176 Member States (91%) and one area which responded to the survey carried out between July 2016 and December 2017.

Start date:

January
1968
Target group: 
School age children (SAC)
Delivery: 
Kindergarten/school
Implementation details : 

Age groups routinely growth monitored: Nivel pre escolar. Measurements taken: height, weight. Indicators tracked: underweight, overweight. Frequency of growth monitoring: No se tiene establecido la periodicidad, sin embargo algunas regiones adoptan el control anual. No protocol exists for monitoring children's growth in school.The growth monitoring programme includes referral to health services.

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