Healthier choices in an Australian health service: A pre-post audit of an intervention to improve the nutritional value of foods and drinks in vending machines and food outlets

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bell, Colin ^a   Pond, Nicole ^b   Davies, Lynda ^b   Francis, Jeryl Lynn ^a,b   Campbell, Elizabeth ^b   Wiggers, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b HUNTER NEW ENGLAND POPULATION HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Food outlets; Health care facilities; Healthy food and beverage availability; Intervention; Vending machines

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BEVERAGE; CATERING SERVICE; FOOD; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD PACKAGING; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD;

BEVERAGES; DATA COLLECTION; FOOD; FOOD DISPENSERS, AUTOMATIC; FOOD LABELING; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; NEW SOUTH WALES; NUTRITIVE VALUE;

EID: 84888082847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-492     Document Type: Article

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