Action schools! BC - Healthy eating: Effects of a whole-school model to modifying eating behaviours of elementary school children

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 328-331

  Day, Meghan E ^a,b   Strange, Karen S ^b   McKay, Heather A ^c,d   Naylor, Patti Jean ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b The 2010 Legacies Now Society   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eating; Health promotion; Initiative; Schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 51149111185     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403766     Document Type: Article

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