'Trying to make it all come together': Structuration and employed mothers' experience of family food provisioning in Canada

Health Promotion International

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 405-415

  Slater, Joyce ^a   Sevenhuysen, Gustaaf ^a   Edginton, Barry ^a,b   O'Neil, John ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

nutrition behaviours; obesity prevention; structural change; women's identity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; COOKING; DECISION MAKING; DIET; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MOTHER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TIME;

ADULT; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COOKING; DIET; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MOTHERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864834836     PISSN: 09574824     EISSN: 14602245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dar037     Document Type: Review

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