Socio-economic circumstances and food habits in Eastern, Central and Western European populations

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 678-687

  Boylan, Sinéad ^a   Lallukka, Tea ^b   Lahelma, Eero ^b   Pikhart, Hynek ^a   Malyutina, Sofia ^c   Pajak, Andrzej ^d   Kubinova, Ruzena ^e   Bragina, Oksana ^c   Stepaniak, Urszula ^d   Gillis Januszewska, Aleksandra ^d   Simonova, Galina ^c   Peasey, Anne ^a   Bobak, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Diet; Eastern Europe; International; Nutrition; Socio economic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; EASTERN EUROPE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPE; FAT INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRUIT; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; DIETARY FATS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPE; EUROPE, EASTERN; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FRUIT; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79955967356     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980010002570     Document Type: Article

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