Impact of the Community Eligibility Provision on meal counts and participation in Pennsylvania and Maryland National School Lunch Programs.

CONCLUSIONS: School-level implementation of CEP is associated with increases in total school meal participation. Current funding structures may prevent broader adoption of the programme by schools with fewer students eligible for FR meals. PMID: 31409436 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31409436?dopt=Abstract

Source: Public Health Nutrition - August 13, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Pokorney PE, Chandran A, Long MW Tags: Public Health Nutr Source Type: research

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