Factors influencing participation rates and employees' attitudes toward promoting healthy eating at blue-collar worksites

Health Education Research

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 727-736

  Lassen, Anne ^a   Bruselius Jensen, Maria ^a   Sommer, Helle Mølgaard ^a   Thorsen, Anne Vibeke ^a   Trolle, Ellen ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLUE COLLAR WORKER; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EATING HABIT; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; WORKPLACE;

DENMARK; DIET; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LABOR UNIONS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; WORKPLACE;

EID: 34548714263     PISSN: 02681153     EISSN: 14653648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/her/cyl153     Document Type: Article

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