Serving hope: rethinking school meal programs in Latin America

作者：Darío Sebastián López-Delgado, Magda Gamba, Julieth Pilar Uriza-Pinzón · 发表于：The Lancet Regional Health - Americas · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1016/j.lana.2024.100818 · 被引用次数：2 · 研究领域：Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations、Child Nutrition and Water Access、Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) presents a diverse socioeconomic and cultural landscape, with unique nutritional challenges impacting health. School-aged children are particularly vulnerable, facing both undernutrition and the growing problem of overweight and obesity. School Meal Programs (SMP) are vital interventions to tackle these issues. This commentary explores into LAC's school lunch programs, addressing the region's nutritional challenges, discussing hurdles, and proposing innovative solutions to rethink SMPs (Fig. 1).