Tracking Beverage Nutrition Information in the News: An Evaluation of Beverage-Related Health Reports on Television News

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-21

  Tanner, Andrea ^a   Blake, Christine E ^a   Thrasher, James F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

beverage; content analysis; health communication; mass media; nutrition

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH POLICY; MASS MEDIA; NUTRITION; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEVERAGE; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; TELEVISION;

BEVERAGES; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; TELEVISION;

EID: 84856913608     PISSN: 03670244     EISSN: 15435237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03670244.2012.635567     Document Type: Article

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