Health improvement, nutrition-related behaviour and the role of school meals: The usefulness of a socio-ecological perspective to inform policy design, implementation and evaluation

Critical Public Health

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 441-454

  Moore, Sue N ^a   Murphy, Simon ^a   Moore, Laurence ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

childhood nutrition; feeding strategies; policy design; policy evaluation; policy implementation; public health improvement; school food policy; social ecology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEAL; NUTRITION SERVICE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PRIMARY SCHOOL; SCHOOL HEALTH EDUCATION; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860833197     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: 14693682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2011.620604     Document Type: Article

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