Ações de alimentação e nutrição desenvolvidas nas escolas públicas de Ensino fundamental de Maceió - Alagoas

Abstract

The healthcare field has changed over time, with the approval of laws that do regulate the promotion and protection of health, enabling the full expression of the potential for human growth and development, quality of life and citizenship. Encouraging healthy eating practices, prevention and control of nutritional disorders, as well as the stimulation of intersectoral actions that provide universal access to food extol the importance of developing actions in schools, since children and adolescents in this age group are forming their eating habits. This study, conducted from March 2012 to March 2013, was conducted in 40 public elementary schools in Maceió with the objective of identifying the food and nutrition in the school context. The document presented here has the following structure: food and nutrition education (EAN) in schools, promoting healthy eating habits, rules governing actions for food and nutrition in schools, food and nutrition security in the context of the shares of food and nutrition. The theoretical framework enabled the context of food and nutrition actions in light of existing guidelines in schools and signaling of the presentations of these actions. Developed along the lines of qualitative, descriptive study, we used the direct interview with the application of a semi-structured questionnaire, and the participants: directors, pedagogic coordinators and teachers.