School health promotion and the consumption of water and sugar-sweetened beverages in secondary schools: a cross-sectional multilevel study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Overweight among adolescents remains a serious concern worldwide and can have major health consequences in later life, such as cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Still, 33% of secondary school adolescents in the Netherlands consume sugar-sweetened beverages daily and over 26% do not consume water every day. The Dutch Healthy School program was developed to support schools in stimulating healthier lifestyles by focusing on health education, school environments, identifying students' health problems, and school policy. We examined the variation between secondary schools regarding the daily consumption of water and sugar-sweetened beverages and whether this variation can be explained by differences between schools regarding Healthy School certification, general school char

SUBMITTER: Vonk L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10324187 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature