Food and beverage advertising during children’s television programming

Irish Journal of Medical Science

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 207-212

  Scully, P ^a   Macken, A ^a,b,d   Leddin, D ^c,d   Cullen, W ^d   Dunne, C ^d   Gorman, C O ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL CHILDREN S RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Advertising; Beverage; Food; Obesity; Television

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; BEVERAGE; CHILD; FOOD; HUMAN; IRELAND; OBESITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TELEVISION;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; BEVERAGES; CHILD; FOOD; HUMANS; IRELAND; OBESITY; TELEVISION;

EID: 84894080134     PISSN: 00211265     EISSN: 18634362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11845-014-1088-1     Document Type: Article

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