Are meals at full-service and fast-food restaurants "normal" or "inferior"?

Population Health Management

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 307-315

  Kim, Daehwan ^a   Leigh, J Paul ^b  

^a Korea Insurance Research Institute   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CATERING SERVICE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIETARY INTAKE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFESTYLE; MALE; OBESITY; POVERTY; RESPONSE VARIABLE;

ADULT; AGED; DATA COLLECTION; FAST FOODS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; RESTAURANTS; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83455246025     PISSN: 19427891     EISSN: 19427905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pop.2010.0071     Document Type: Article

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