Development of a Tool to Assess Past Food Insecurity of Immigrant Latino Mothers{A figure is presented}

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 378-382

  Kuyper, Edith M ^a   Espinosa Hall, Gloria ^b   Lamp, Catherine L ^b   Martin, Anna C ^b   Metz, Diane L ^b   Smith, Dorothy ^b   Townsend, Marilyn S ^a   Kaiser, Lucia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

Author keywords

food insecurity; Latino; life course perspective

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUNGER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIGRATION; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET SURVEYS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; FOOD SUPPLY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HUNGER; INTERVIEWS; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; POVERTY;

EID: 33751536871     PISSN: 14994046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneb.2006.05.019     Document Type: Article

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