Woodside Jayne V, O'Kane Niamh, Pallan Miranda, Evans Charotte E L, Defeyter Greta, Brownlee Iain, Murphy Marie, Parnham Jennie C, Lalli Gurpinder S, Bryant Maria, McKinley Michelle C, Gallagher Alison M, Schliemann Desiree, McConnell Cara, Olgacher Dilara, Spence Suzanne
Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.
Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Proc Nutr Soc. 2024 Nov 18:1-12. doi: 10.1017/S0029665124007560.
School food has a major influence on children's diet quality and has the potential to reduce diet inequalities and non-communicable disease risk. Funded by the UK Prevention Research Partnership, we have established a UK school food system network. The overarching aim was to build a community to work towards a more health-promoting food and nutrition system in UK schools. The network has brought together a team from a range of disciplines, while the inclusion of non-academic users and other stakeholders, such as pupils and parents, has allowed the co-development of research priorities and questions. This network has used a combination of workshops, working groups and pump-priming projects to explore the school food system, as well as creating a systems map of the UK school food system and conducting network analysis of the newly established network. Through understanding the current food system and building network expertise, we hope to advance research and policy around food in schools. Further funding has been achieved based on these findings, working in partnership with policymakers and schools, while a Nutrition Society Special Interest Group has been established to ensure maximum engagement and future sustainability of the network. This review will describe the key findings and progress to date based on the work of the network, as well as a summary of the current literature, identification of knowledge gaps and areas of debate, according to key elements of the school food system.
学校食品对儿童的饮食质量有重大影响，并且有可能减少饮食不平等现象和非传染性疾病风险。在英国预防研究合作组织的资助下，我们建立了一个英国学校食品系统网络。总体目标是建立一个社区，致力于在英国学校打造一个更有利于促进健康的食品和营养系统。该网络汇聚了来自一系列学科的团队，同时纳入非学术用户和其他利益相关者，如学生和家长，这使得研究重点和问题得以共同制定。这个网络利用研讨会、工作组和启动项目相结合的方式来探索学校食品系统，还绘制了英国学校食品系统的系统图，并对新建立的网络进行了网络分析。通过了解当前的食品系统并积累网络专业知识，我们希望推动有关学校食品的研究和政策发展。基于这些研究结果，我们与政策制定者和学校合作获得了进一步的资金，同时还成立了营养学会特别兴趣小组，以确保该网络的最大参与度和未来的可持续性。本综述将根据该网络的工作描述迄今为止的主要研究结果和进展，以及当前文献的总结、知识空白的识别和根据学校食品系统的关键要素展开的辩论领域。
