Food as pharma: marketing nutraceuticals to India’s rural poor

Critical Public Health

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 361-372

  Street, Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bottom of the pyramid; fortified food; humanitarian technology; India; nutraceuticals

Indexed keywords

NUTRACEUTICAL;

DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG MARKETING; FOOD; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PACKAGING; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; NOTE; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL MARKETING; SOCIAL STATUS; WELLBEING;

EID: 84925116040     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: 14693682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2014.966652     Document Type: Note

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