Healthy food purchasing among African American youth: Associations with child gender, adult caregiver characteristics and the home food environment

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 670-677

  Surkan, Pamela J ^a   Coutinho, Anastasia J ^a   Christiansen, Karina ^a   Dennisuk, Lauren A ^a   Suratkar, Sonali ^a   Mead, Erin ^a   Sharma, Sangita ^b   Gittelsohn, Joel ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescents; African Americans; Behavioural intentions; Diet; Food purchasing; Girls; Overweight

Indexed keywords

HELIANTHUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; HEALTH FOOD; HUMAN; MALE; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SUGAR INTAKE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BALTIMORE; CAREGIVERS; CHILD; COMMERCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIETARY FATS; DIETARY SUCROSE; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH FOOD; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; POVERTY; SELF EFFICACY; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 79955965808     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S136898001000251X     Document Type: Article

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