Should governments feed all school children?

Michelle Black¹, Joseph Williams^{1

2}, Anna Wharton³

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
² British Association for Child and Adolescent Public Health, London, UK.
³ School of Public Health, Yorkshire and Humber, NHS England, Leeds, UK.

Editorial

Michelle Black et al. Public Health Pract (Oxf). 2024.

. 2024 Jan 18:7:100465.

doi: 10.1016/j.puhip.2024.100465. eCollection 2024 Jun.

Michelle Black¹, Joseph Williams^{1

2}, Anna Wharton³

¹ School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
² British Association for Child and Adolescent Public Health, London, UK.
³ School of Public Health, Yorkshire and Humber, NHS England, Leeds, UK.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

MB, JW and AW are co-authors of the report Health of the Next Generation: Good Food for Children.

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