Developing a consumer evaluation tool of weight control strategy advertisements on the Internet

Health Education Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 567-575

  Luevorasirikul, Kanokrat ^a   Gray, Nicola J ^a   Anderson, Claire W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE; STEROID;

ARTICLE; DIET; EVALUATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDITY; WEIGHT CONTROL; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; BODY WEIGHT; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INTERNET; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 44649097665     PISSN: 02681153     EISSN: 14653648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/her/cym044     Document Type: Article

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