Designing Media Messages About Health and Nutrition: What Strategies Are Most Effective?

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Wilson, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Media effects; message factors; persuasion; processing style; source factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIET; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MASS MEDIUM; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMMUNICATION; DIET; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTIVATION; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 33847275068     PISSN: 14994046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneb.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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