Promoting sustainable consumption and healthy eating:udA comparative study among public schools in Denmark, Germany, Finland Italy

摘要

Since the Ottawa charter on the importance of health promotion in settings the school has beenudnamed as one of the most important arenas for interventions to promote physical activity andudhealthy eating. Especially the school food service has been the object of a change agenda that hasudbeen named the European school food revolution. This revolution is characterized not onlyudattempts to promote healthy eating but also by attempts to make food supply and consumptionudmore sustainable by integrating organic procurement policies. The current study aims atudinvestigating how these two agendas work together. Do they compete or do they go hand in handudas previous studies suggest? And if this is the case does organic food schemes at school and relatedudcurricular activities then induce healthier eating behaviours among children? The research that isudpart of the iPOPY study was conducted among school food coordinators in publicudprimary/secondary schools (children age from 6 to 15 years old) in Denmark, Germany, Finland andudItaly. The study was initiated in Denmark, and subsequently performed in the other three countriesudthrough a web‐based questionnaire. The questionnaire was translated and adapted to fit theuddifferent languages and food cultures. The questionnaire researched the attitude, policies andudserving practices regarding promoting organic foods and healthy eating habits through school foodudservice and classroom activities. The data suggest that schools with organic supply tend to developudorganisational environments that a more supportive for healthy eating than their non organicudcounterparts. However the results were only significant for Denmark and Italy, In Germany resultsudwere significant in some cases where as for Finland there were no differences or results wereudcontradictory. The findings suggest the school food revolution is driven by different agendas butudthat awareness raising on nutrition and sustainability issues seems to be an important feature ofudmany change processes. Findings also suggest that the two agendas although separated in theudscientific literature is much more integrated in the everyday life perspective of school practitioners