Television food advertising and the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity: A multicountry comparison

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1003-1012

  Goris, Janny M ^a   Petersen, Solveig ^b   Stamatakis, Emmanuel ^c   Veerman, J Lennert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advertising; Child; Comparison; Obesity; Overweight

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMAN; MALE; MARKETING; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS; TELEVISION;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMANS; MALE; MARKETING; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; TELEVISION;

EID: 77956217582     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980009992850     Document Type: Article

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