There is increasing understanding that stigma associated with poverty, race, nationality,
gender, obesity, and other intersecting, socially devalued characteristics is a key social …

Background There are no national arrangements for free school meals provision in Norway
despite this being an important opportunity to improve children's and adolescents' nutritional …

With the rise in the availability of absenteeism data, it is clear that students are missing a
staggering amount of school. Policymakers have focused efforts on identifying school …

The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) allows high-poverty schools to offer free meals to
all students regardless of household income. Conceptualizing universal meal provision as a …

Among the millions of food insecure people in high income countries, only a modest fraction
uses food pantries. Stigma is commonly cited as a barrier to use and may arise due to the …

Evidence suggests that a free school meal can improve children and adolescent diet, social
environment, concentration, and school performance. This study aimed to investigate …

Abstract Ka Ora, Ka Ako provides free, healthy lunches for 220,000 learners in low-equity
New Zealand schools. Costing over $260 million annually, it represents the largest …

Despite growing concerns about substantial socio-economic differences between districts in
many developed nations, limited attention has been paid to how adolescent mental health …

Childhood obesity is one of the major public health challenges of the 21st century.
Randomized interventions have shown promising evidence of long-term effects from …

Although administrative burden has been studied in relation to social policy, the experience
of policy implementation as onerous is relevant to all policy domains, and citizens can …