Strategies for health promotion: Facing the challenge in South Africa

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 749-754

  Temple, Norman J ^a  

^a ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Nutrition; Physical activity; Policy; South Africa; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PACKAGING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEART DISEASE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; REVIEW; SMOKING; SOUTH AFRICA;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 36349001280     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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