Promoting Healthy Choices in Non-Chain Restaurants: Effects of a Simple Cue to Customers

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 132-138

  Nothwehr, Faryle K ^a   Snetselaar, Linda ^a   Dawson, Jeffrey ^a   Schultz, Ulrike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

community intervention; health promotion; nutrition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CATERING SERVICE; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

CUES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESTAURANTS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872021846     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: 15526372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839912437368     Document Type: Article

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