Promoting dietary change among state health employees in Arkansas through a worksite wellness program: The healthy employee lifestyle program (HELP)

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Perez, Amanda Philyaw ^a   Phillips, Martha M ^b   Cornell, Carol E ^b   Mays, Glen ^b   Adams, Becky ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PILOT STUDY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE;

ARKANSAS; DIET; FOOD HABITS; FRUIT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; VEGETABLES;

EID: 73349139907     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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