School food and nutrition environments in Australian primary schools: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT: Schools are a key environment which can provide access to food, education and skills to enhance food and nutrition literacy and health and wellbeing of primary school students. This review set out to identify key features of school food and nutrition environments (SFNEs) of Australian primary schools, the barriers and enablers for optimising these features, and the impact of school socio-economic status on these features. Six health databases were searched between August 2021 and October 2024. Articles which met the inclusion criteria (n = 148) were selected for a content analysis using a school-system approach. A quality assessment and an in-depth review was then conducted on articles published post 2019 (n = 71). The content analysis identified 18 SFNE elements which were present within

SUBMITTER: Gingell T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12212514 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature