What is the cost of a healthy diet? Using diet data from the UK Women's Cohort Study

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1043-1049

  Morris, Michelle A ^a   Hulme, Claire ^b   Clarke, Graham P ^a   Edwards, Kimberley L ^c   Cade, Janet E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIET; GUIDELINE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; WOMENS HEALTH;

UNITED KINGDOM;

BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; ECONOMICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; DIET SURVEYS; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; GREAT BRITAIN; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME;

EID: 84911384994     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2014-204039     Document Type: Article

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