Fast-food marketing and children's fast-food consumption: Exploring parents' influences in an ethnically diverse sample

Journal of Public Policy and Marketing

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 221-235

  Grier, Sonya A ^a   Mensinger, Janell ^b   Huang, Shirley H ^c   Kumanyika, Shiriki K ^d   Stettler, Nicolas ^c  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b READING HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 36849036504     PISSN: 07439156     EISSN: 15477207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1509/jppm.26.2.221     Document Type: Review

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