Retail health marketing: Evaluating consumers’ choice for healthier foods

Health Marketing Quarterly

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 53-65

  Nayga, Rodolfo M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONSUMER; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD PREFERENCE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LOW FAT DIET; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COMMERCE; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET, FAT-RESTRICTED; FEMALE; FOOD LABELING; FOOD PREFERENCES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MARKETING OF HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033288470     PISSN: 07359683     EISSN: 15450864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J026v16n04_05     Document Type: Article

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