Food Label Use and Food Label Skills among Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 398-406

  Lubman, Nadia ^a   Doak, Colleen ^b   Jasti, Sunitha ^c  

^a NEW YORK METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Food label skills; Food label use; Former Soviet Union immigrants; Russian immigrants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD PACKAGING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; FOOD LABELING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES; RUSSIA;

EID: 84865986037     PISSN: 14994046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneb.2011.08.009     Document Type: Article

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