Measuring cues for healthy choices on restaurant menus: Development and testing of a measurement instrument

American Journal of Health Promotion

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 444-449

  Cassady, Diana ^a,c   Housemann, Robyn ^b   Dagher, Cindy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Health Promotion; Reliability; Restaurants

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CATERING SERVICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST CONTROL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEASUREMENT; NUTRITION; VEGETABLE;

EID: 3042739929     PISSN: 08901171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4278/0890-1171-18.6.444     Document Type: Conference Paper

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