Integrated health and nutrition approaches to school feeding: maximising future human capital in Latin America and the Caribbean.

ABSTRACT: Integrated health and nutrition packages in schools have been shown to be a cost-effective approach to support children's well-being and academic achievement; yet few countries adequately invest in promoting such integration. School feeding programmes in Latin America are among the best-established, with some of the largest scale and coverage in the world. National School Meal programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean benefit over 80.3 million children and adolescents in the region. This paper seeks to determine the level of integration of complementary activities to school meal programmes in the region by examining their determinant factors: objectives, complementary services, governing regulatory frameworks, and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms. Our review reveals that although m

SUBMITTER: Irizarry LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11755136 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature