The relationship between policy and place
The role of school meals in addressing health inequalities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3608904 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jo Pike (University of Hull, corresponding author), Derek Colquhoun (0000-0002-4263-017X, University of Hull) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 50-60 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Sociology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1446-1242 • E-ISSN: 1839-3551 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5172/hesr.18.1.50 |
| OpenAlex | W2077453761 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 9 |
Healthy eating in schools is central to UK Government attempts to redress nutritional deficiencies and combat childhood obesity. However, there is little consideration of the local, contextual spatial factors that contribute to the ways in which particular policy initiatives are experienced at the school level. This paper presents findings from an evaluation of the ‘Eat Well Do Well’ programme in Kingston-upon-Hull, UK: an innovative scheme providing free, healthy food to all primary school children. Data is presented from an ethnographic study of two case study schools illustrating how notions of ‘spatiality’ augment our understanding of the ways policy intention is mediated. We consider the potential of primary school meals policy to address health inequalities using the concept of ‘spatiality’ to examine the interconnections between the aesthetic, temporal, social and spatial elements of school dining environments. We conclude optimistically, suggesting that an engagement by health policy developers with what we call the ‘spatial imagination’, might be useful in examining and developing factors that ensure the effectiveness of interventions addressing the determinants of ill health
Childhood obesity · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Inequality · Obesity · Political science · Project commissioning · Psychological intervention · Public policy · Public relations · Publishing · Redress · Sociology · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Psychology · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
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A review of the English school meal
Between good intentions and practical constraints
Sinner Ladies and the gospel of good taste
Health improvement, nutrition-related behaviour and the role of school meals
Healthcare choice
Relationships between objective and subjective socioeconomic status and physical health among adolescents in South Korea
I don't have to listen to you! You're just a dinner lady!’
Factors influencing take-up of free school meals in primary- and secondary-school children in England
The rural school meal as a site for learning about food
Learning through school meals
Daily distribution of free healthy school meals or food-voucher intervention? Perceptions and attitudes of parents and educators
Enacting Sustainable School-Based Health Initiatives
Ritualism and disempowerment of education
The Holy Gram
We've Got Some Underground Business Selling Junk Food
Social Determinants and Their Unequal Distribution
Socioeconomic determinants of health
The concepts and principles of equity and health
School Meals Policy
The meaning and goals of equity in health
Wider income gaps, wider waistbands? An ecological study of obesity and income inequality
Home'-Making
Ethnomethodology and Sociology
Theorising Inequalities in Health
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2023 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |