Identifying and overcoming barriers to healthy eating faced by ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom

The New Cultures of Food: Marketing Opportunities from Ethnic, Religious and Cultural Diversity

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 21-36

  Shaw, Hillary ^a  

^a HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diet; Ethnic minority; Migration; Retailing; Social deprivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950926937     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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