PROTOCOL: School feeding for improving the physical and psychosocial health of disadvantaged elementary school children

Abstract

Health inequities ‘are unfair and remediable inequalities’. [...]health inequalities are measurable, while health inequities are normative judgments. According to one supporter “Research has shown that when food is provided at school, hunger is immediately alleviated, and school attendance is doubled” p 1, (GHC 2002). The reviewers did not perform systematic searches. [...]the evidence presented in these reviews may be only a partial representation of the relevant evidence. Included studies were not systematically or critically appraised. [...]we know little about the quality of the evidence.