Reducing Student Exposure to Digital Food and Beverage Marketing: Policy and Practice Recommendations
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Published:2023-03-02
Issue:7
Volume:93
Page:638-643
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ISSN:0022-4391
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Container-title:Journal of School Health
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Journal of School Health
Author:
Wilking Cara1,
Moukalled Summer2,
Polacsek Michele2ORCID
Affiliation:
1. PO Box 503 Cummaquid MA 02637
2. Center for Excellence in Public Health, University of New England 716 Stevens Avenue Portland ME 04103
Abstract
ABSTRACTDigital marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages to children and adolescents is pervasive, highly effective, undermines healthy eating, and contributes to health inequities. Expanded use of electronic devices and remote learning during the COVID‐19 pandemic has increased the urgency for policy interventions to limit digital food marketing in schools and on school‐issued devices. The US Department of Agriculture provides little guidance to schools for how to address digital food marketing. Federal and state privacy protections for children are inadequate. Considering these policy gaps, state and local education authorities can incorporate strategies to reduce digital food marketing into school policies for: content filtering on school networks and on school‐issued devices; digital instructional materials; student‐owned device use during lunch; and school use of social media to communicate with parents and students. Model policy language is provided. These policy approaches can leverage existing policy mechanisms to address digital food marketing from a variety of sources.
Funder
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Philosophy,Education
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