Nutrition label numeracy: Disparities and association with health behaviors

American Journal of Health Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 427-436

  Nogueira, Leticia M ^a   Thai, Chan L ^b   Nelson, Wendy ^b   Oh, April ^b  

^a TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet; Disparity; Health information seeking; Nutrition label numeracy

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; FRUIT; FRUSTRATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NUTRITION; RACE; UNEMPLOYMENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD PACKAGING; HEALTH DISPARITY; INFORMATION SEEKING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD LABELING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84975842673     PISSN: 10873244     EISSN: 19457359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5993/AJHB.40.4.4     Document Type: Article

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