Factors influencing consumer dietary health preventative behaviours

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Petrovici, Dan A ^a   Ritson, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL INTAKE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIET; EATING HABIT; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD PACKAGING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PROPHYLAXIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; ROMANIA; SELF REPORT; THEORETICAL MODEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHOLESTEROL INTAKE; FAT INTAKE;

ADULT; CAPITALISM; CHOLESTEROL, DIETARY; DECISION MAKING; DIET; DIETARY FATS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FOOD LABELING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH TRANSITION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; ROMANIA; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 33748961134     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-222     Document Type: Article

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