Family members' roles in healthy-eating socialization based on a healthy-eating intervention

Young Consumers

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 208-223

  Pedersen, Susanne ^a   Grønhøj, Alice ^a   Bech Larsen, Tino ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Children; Health education; Healthy eating intervention; Healthy eating socialization; Parents; Qualitative research; Socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898473466     PISSN: 17473616     EISSN: 17587212     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17473611211261610     Document Type: Article

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