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Pouring rights contracts and childhood overweight: a critical theory perspective
1School of Nursing, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO, USA.
Purpose:
To examine school environments, and in particular, pouring rights contracts and how they relate to childhood overweight from a critical theory perspective.
Conclusions:
Pouring rights contracts provide a profit to powerful mega-corporations at the expense of children's health. There is a need to move beyond a solely individual approach to addressing childhood overweight and involve a social ecology approach. This would involve a push for social change, including removal of soda machines from schools, and changing marketing practices targeted at children.
Practice Implications:
Nurses are poised in community situations to actively effect social changes to improve health outcomes of our nation's most vulnerable people, but nurses must get involved.
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