Protecting children from harmful food marketing: Options for local government to make a difference

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Harris, Harris L ^a   Graff, Samantha K ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Public Health Law and Policy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; CHILD; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; FOOD; FOOD INDUSTRY; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; CHILD; FOOD; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMANS; LEGISLATION AS TOPIC; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NUTRITIVE VALUE; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855181684     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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