Pouring rights contracts and childhood overweight: a critical theory perspective.
OBJECTIVE
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.


CONCLUSIONS
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.
Opalinski
Andra
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School of Nursing, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO, USA.
D000329:Advertising; D002253:Carbonated Beverages / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D003284:Contract Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019649:Food Industry / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005522:Food Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010371:Pediatric Nursing; D011057:Politics; D012574:Schools / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012922:Social Change; D012931:Social Environment; D040241:Social Marketing; D012944:Social Support; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology