Fast food, race/ethnicity, and income: A geographic analysis

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 211-217

  Block, Jason P ^a   Scribner, Richard A ^b   Desalvo, Karen B ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FOOD INTAKE; HIGHWAY; HOME; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OBESITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESTAURANTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 4644278376     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2004.06.007     Document Type: Article

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