Healthy School Canteen Policies, Programs, and Best Practices in Southeast Asia v2

Healthy School Canteen Policies, Programs, and Best Practices in Southeast Asia book aims to inspire school administrators, teachers, students, and policy decision-makers in Southeast Asia on the importance of establishing and maintaining a healthy school canteen. This book is also meant to promote the efforts of featured schools and governments in advocating health and nutrition among school community members, particularly students, through a healthy school canteen. Twenty six (26) healthy school canteens and around 70 best practices are featured from six (6) Southeast Asian countries, namely: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and the Philippines.

This book also describes geographic and sociodemographic profiles, educational systems, malnutrition and eating habits among school-aged children and adolescents, policies and programs on school health and healthy school canteens, examples of healthy school canteen best practices, lessons learned, and recommendations of respective countries.