The utility of focus group interviews to capture dietary consumption data in the distant past: Dairy consumption in Kazakhstan villages 50 years ago

Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 192-202

  Schwerin, M ^a   Schonfeld, S ^b   Drozdovitch, V ^b   Akimzhanov, K ^c   Aldyngurov, D ^c   Bouville, A ^b   Land, C ^b   Luckyanov, N ^b   Mabuchi, K ^b   Semenova, Y ^c   Simon, S ^b   Tokaeva, A ^c   Zhumadilov, Z ^c   Potischman, N ^b  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Government Semipalatinsk State Medical University   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

diet; epidemiology; focus group interview; Kazakhstan; older respondents; radiation exposure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960379392     PISSN: 20401744     EISSN: 20401752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S2040174410000243     Document Type: Article

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