A comparison of the effectiveness of an adult nutrition education program for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians

Simone Pettigrew, Michelle I. Jongenelis, Sarah Moore and Iain S. Pratt

Social Science & Medicine, 2015, vol. 145, issue C, 120-124

Abstract: Adult nutrition education is an important component of broader societal efforts to address the high prevalence of nutrition-related diseases. In Australia, Aboriginal people are a critical target group for such programs because of their substantially higher rates of these diseases.

Keywords: Nutrition education; Diet; Intervention evaluation; Aboriginal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.09.025

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