Using mobile fruit vendors to increase access to fresh fruit and vegetables for schoolchildren

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Tester, June M ^a   Yen, Irene H ^b   Laraia, Barbara ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PACKAGING; FRUIT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; PILOT STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; STUDENT; TIME; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMERCE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD SERVICES; FRUIT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84864832091     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5888/pcd9.110222     Document Type: Note

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