The extent and nature of television food advertising to children in Xi’an, China

BMC Public Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-9

  Li, Danyang ^a   Wang, Ting ^b   Cheng, Yue ^a   Zhang, Min ^a   Yang, Xue ^a   Zhu, Zhonghai ^a   Liu, Danli ^a   Yang, Wenfang ^c   Zeng, Lingxia ^a  

^a MEDICAL SCHOOL OF XI AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NINGXIA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF XI AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Children obesity; Core food; Food advertising; Food promotion

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHINA; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMAN; MALE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PROCEDURES; SCHOOL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TELEVISION;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHINA; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; SCHOOLS; TELEVISION;

EID: 84992035535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3468-0     Document Type: Article

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