Food price policies may improve diet but increase socioeconomic inequalities in nutrition

World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 115, Issue , 2016, Pages 36-45

  Darmon, Nicole ^a   Lacroix, Anne ^b   Muller, Laurent ^b   Ruffieux, Bernard ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INRA University Pierre Mendes France   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FRUIT; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUTRIENT; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; VEGETABLE; ADULT; CALORIC INTAKE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; FOOD QUALITY; HEALTHY DIET; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION POLICY; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; COMMERCE; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD QUALITY; FRUIT; HEALTHY DIET; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION POLICY; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VEGETABLES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84973582553     PISSN: 00842230     EISSN: 16623975     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000442069     Document Type: Article

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