Food and nutritional safety: Contexts and importance in promoting school health

• Autor(a) principal: Moura, Edênia Raquel Barros Bezerra de
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Mendes, Mariane Louise Marinho, Omena, Cristhiane Maria Bazílio de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; spa; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/iberoamericana/article/view/16614
• topic: School feeding; Health policies; Health indicators; School health promotion; Food security; Alimentación escolar; Indicadores de salud; Promoción de la salud; Políticas de salud; Seguridad alimentaria; Alimentação escolar; Indicadores de saúde; Promoção da saúde escolar; Políticas de saúde; Segurança alimentar

A bibliographic collection was raised, presenting the school as a privileged field of healthy eating practices in the promotion of food and nutritional security. We used electronic data from Scielo, government sources, non-electronic literature and studies in the Portuguese language, published between 2000 and 2020. It is evident that the concept of Food and Nutrition Security is still under construction, evolving as humanity advances, involving knowledge and political actions that enshrine it as a universal right. In this conception, several methods are used to evaluate the dimension of access to food, especially the analysis of income and/or food consumption in order to contribute to the elaboration of public policies that promote health in the school context because it is a conducive environment for the implementation of food and nutritional security actions. Thus, the importance that the school exerts in the formation of healthy eating habits is listed, with school feeding being one of the aspects of this training.