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Digital Food and Beverage Marketing Environments in a National Sample of Middle Schools: Implications for Policy and Practice

One promising approach to influence nutrition behavior is to limit food and beverage marketing to children. Children are a lucrative market and schools may be an effective setting in which to intervene. Studies have shown that marketing in schools is prevalent but little is known about digital marketing to students in the school setting. Researchers More

Keywords: Digital marketing, School wellness policies, Sugar-sweetened beverages

Date: September 2019

Resource Type: Journal Article

Focus Areas: Food Marketing School & After School

Assessing Digital Food and Beverage Marketing in Middle Schools Nationally to Inform Policy to Restrict Marketers’ Access to Children

This study aims to assess school digital marketing environments in a national sample of middle schools to identify opportunities and barriers to limit school-based marketing. This team previously developed a survey to assess digital marketing in schools as part of a previous HER-funded grant which will be used in this study. The specific aims of More

Keywords: Digital marketing, Food advertising, Media, Rural, School wellness policies, Social media, Urban

Date: February 2016

Resource Type: Grant Summary