Price, availability, and youth obesity: Evidence from bridging the gap

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Chaloupka, Frank J ^a   Powell, Lisa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD BEHAVIOR; ECONOMICS; EXERCISE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LEISURE; OBESITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; BODY MASS INDEX; EXERCISE; FOOD; FOOD HABITS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; OBESITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70149125302     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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