Health and nutrition economics: Diet costs are associated with diet quality

Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 598-604

  Lo, Yuan Ting ^a   Chang, Yu Hung ^b   Lee, Meei Shyuan ^a,c   Wahlqvist, Mark L ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diet costs; Food choices; Food prices; Food security; Nutritional economics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COST; DIET; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD INDUSTRY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ANIMALS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD INDUSTRY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITION DISORDERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77649253522     PISSN: 09647058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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