A Community-Based, Environmental Chronic Disease Prevention Intervention to Improve Healthy Eating Psychosocial Factors and Behaviors in Indigenous Populations in the Canadian Arctic

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 592-602

  Mead, Erin L ^a   Gittelsohn, Joel ^a   Roache, Cindy ^b   Corriveau, André ^c   Sharma, Sangita ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

chronic disease; dietary behaviors; Inuit; nutrition intervention; obesity; psychosocial factors; social cognitive theory; social ecological models

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CATERING SERVICE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; DIET; DIETARY BEHAVIORS; ESKIMO; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; NUTRITION INTERVENTION; OBESITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY; SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL MODELS;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DIETARY BEHAVIORS; INUIT; NUTRITION INTERVENTION; OBESITY; PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS; SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY; SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL MODELS;

ADULT; ARCTIC REGIONS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MASS MEDIA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; NUNAVUT; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 84884495981     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198112467793     Document Type: Article

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