Nutrition literacy status and preferred nutrition communication channels among adults in the lower Mississippi Delta

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Zoellner, Jamie ^a   Connell, Carol ^a   Bounds, Wendy ^a   Crook, LaShaundrea ^a   Yadrick, Kathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUTRITION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MISSISSIPPI; NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 73349133726     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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