A Comparison of Nutrition Provision in Different School Lunch Management Projects: School Self-owned versus Contract-out

• Main Authors: Mei-ling Chen, 陳美伶
• Other Authors: Tsung-hsueh Lu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59468236900364483907

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 公共衛生研究所 === 95 === Background: Nutrion provision in school lunch is an important determinant of dietary habits and obesity among adolescents. During the past decade, more and more school transformed the self-owned management project in providing school lunch into contract-out. Despite of some studies compared the strengths and weakness of the two management projects, no study contrast the nutrion provision between the two management projects. Objective: To determine if the use of the score of students as the criteria to decide the continuity of the contracts would result in provision of more fast foods, higher calories and inconcordance with the calories labels in the manu. Methods: I first collected the score of students and the records of contracts of 2002 in one junior high school in Tainan city to determine the correlations. I then examined if the luch provided more fast foods got higher score from the students. Thirdly, I asked six professional dieticians to assess the calories and nutrients provided in the lunch by photograph and compared the differences between the two management projects. Finally, I assessed if the calories and nutrients labeled in manu differed from those assessed by professional diaticians. Results: My findings indicated that the continuity of contracts was based on the score of the students. More fast foods provided did result in higher score. Professional dieticians’ assessment demonstrated higher calories in lunch provided by contract-out project. Conclusion: Using score of students as the criteria in deciding whether to continue the contracts did result in more fast foods and higher calories provided. More discussions are needed to assess the appropriateness of this criteria.