Playing the policy game: A review of the barriers to and enablers of nutrition policy change

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 2643-2653

  Cullerton, Katherine ^a   Donnet, Timothy ^a   Lee, Amanda ^a   Gallegos, Danielle ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advocacy; Nutrition; Policy making

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; NUTRITION POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

HUMANS; NUTRITION POLICY; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84962109373     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980016000677     Document Type: Review

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