An illustration of web survey methododlogy: PhD study

Chen He

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Abstract

A food and nutrition revival has hit European schools in recent years and as a result school meal provision is undergoing significant changes. Unhealthy eating and growing prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents are significant threats that seem to foster a remaking and rethinking of the food and nutrition “technology” at school. Also call for climate friendly and sustainable food consumption strategies seem to impact the way food, nutrition and health is being shaped at school including the way the food service is carried out. As a result the “novel” school food services increasingly tend to include an organic supply chain.
A former study in the Danish primary schools has shown that there is an association between organic school food policies and indicators (proxies) for healthy eating among children when (school food coordinators) statements on indicators (proxies) for healthy eating are used as variable. This project continue to search for the above signs of associations but involving also a “bottom” level (pupils) perspective in addition to the “top” level (school food coordinators) in the previous study.
The project is to study the following hypothesis: organic food service praxis/policy (POP) is associated with praxis/policies for healthier eating in Danish school food service. In other words if organic procurement policies and the resulting praxis in schools can help build a healthier eating habits among pupils in such school as compared to schools without organic policies/praxis.
The last perspective is going to be studied in a comparative study design where the Danish case (existing data from WBQ) will be compared with new data from school food service in Germany, Italy and Finland. These data is going to be collected through a web survey.
The project is a part of the iPOPY research project funded through the European Research Arena project Core Organic
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNovel Strategies for Climate Mitigation, Sustainability and Healthy Eating in Public Foodscapes. : Proceedings of the seminar held at Aalborg University, Copenhagen Institute of Technology, Denmark, November 25th-26th, 2009
Number of pages20
PublisherBioforsk
Publication date2010
ISBN (Electronic)978-87-92499-04-2
Publication statusPublished - 2010
EventNovel Strategies for Climate Mitigation, Sustainability and Healthy Eating in Public Foodscapes. - Ballerup, Denmark
Duration: 25 Nov 200926 Nov 2009

Conference

ConferenceNovel Strategies for Climate Mitigation, Sustainability and Healthy Eating in Public Foodscapes.
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityBallerup
Period25/11/200926/11/2009

Keywords

  • Organic, healthy food, children, school meals

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