Establishing Global School Feeding Program Targets: How Many Poor Children Globally Should Be Prioritized, and What Would Be the Cost of Implementation?

Frontiers in Public Health

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Lesley J. Drake¹  Nail Lazrak²  Meena Fernandes¹  Kim Chu¹  Samrat Singh¹  David Ryckembusch²  Sara Nourozi¹  Donald A. P. Bundy³  Carmen Burbano² 

[1] Partnership for Child Development, Imperial College, United Kingdom;World Food Programme;London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

关键词: schoolchildren;    adolescents;    school health;    school feeding;    poverty;    child development;    human capital;    nutrition;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2020.530176

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The creation of Human Capital is dependent upon good health and education throughout the first 8,000 days of life, but there is currently under-investment in health and nutrition after the first 1,000 days. Working with governments and partners, the UN World Food Program is leading a global scale up of investment in school health, and has undertaken a strategic analysis to explore the scale and cost of meeting the needs of the most disadvantaged school age children and adolescents in low and middle-income countries globally. Of the 663 million school children enrolled in school, 328 million live where the current coverage of school meals is inadequate (<80%), of these, 251 million live in countries where there are significant nutrition deficits (>20% anemia and stunting), and of these an estimated 73 million children in 60 countries are also living in extreme poverty (

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