Individual and Neighborhood Differences in Diet Among Low-Income Foreign and U.S.-Born Women

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 181-190

  Dubowitz, Tamara ^a   Subramanian, S V ^b   Acevedo Garcia, Dolores ^b   Osypuk, Theresa L ^c   Peterson, Karen E ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIETARY INTAKE; EMOTION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FRUIT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LANGUAGE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MODEL; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUERPERIUM; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE;

ADULT; DIET; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FRUIT; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLES;

EID: 42749087179     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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