‘Offering our children healthier choices’: The growing push for school lunch reform

'Offering our children healthier choices': The growing push for school lunch reform

In 2022, The Lancet, a British peer-reviewed journal focused on global public health, published a short article titled: “Unhealthy school meals: a solution to hunger or a health problem?” As the report suggested, providing school meals is an important measure to prevent food insecurity there that nearly 30 million children receive free or reduced-price breakfast … Read more

Children and teenagers are screened for mental disorders

Children and adolescents to be screened for mental health conditions

In response to the growing mental health problems of children and adolescents, the Ministry of Health and Population has decided to train health workers to examine their mental health conditions. Officials said up to 150 health workers, including doctors, nurses and paramedics, will be trained to screen the mental health conditions of this age group … Read more