Free Healthy School Meals for All as a Means to Advance Child Health Equity

JAMA Pediatr. 2023 Aug 1;177(8):753-754. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.1955.

Authors

Melanie K Bean¹, Elizabeth L Adams², Joanna Buscemi³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
² Department of Exercise Science, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
³ Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.

PMID: 37358872
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.1955

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This Viewpoint discusses how providing free, healthy meals to all schoolchildren can advance health equity.

MeSH terms

Child
Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Food Services*
Health Equity*
Humans
Meals