"I don't eat a hamburger and large chips every day!" A qualitative study of the impact of public health messages about obesity on obese adults

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lewis, Sophie ^a   Thomas, Samantha L ^a   Hyde, Jim ^b   Castle, David ^c   Blood, R Warwick ^d   Komesaroff, Paul A ^e  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Victorian Department of Health   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNICATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952996031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-309     Document Type: Article

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