Who is missing the message? Targeting strategies to increase food label use among US adults

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 760-772

  Chen, Xiaoli ^a   Jahns, Lisa ^b   Gittelsohn, Joel ^a   Wang, Youfa ^a  

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

^b GRAND FORKS HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Food label; Nutrition knowledge; Obesity; Sociodemographic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; CONSUMER; ETHNOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PACKAGING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FOOD LABELING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859576366     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980011002242     Document Type: Article

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