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Multidimensional poverty status of rural households in Nigeria
Adepoju, Abimbola Oluyemisi; Akinluyi, Oluwatofunmi Ibukun - In: International Journal of Social Economics 44 (2017) 8, pp. 1046-1061
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors influencing the use of family planning and its link with multidimensional poverty in rural Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach The Alkire and Foster measure of poverty as well as the Logistic and Probit models were used to identify the...
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The life security system for Chinese families in compliance with the family planning policy
Wang, Guojun; Su, Xing - In: The Journal of Risk Finance 13 (2012) 3, pp. 240-261
Purpose – During the early 1970s, faced with the serious demographic situation, China began to fully implement the policy of family planning in urban and rural regions. Nowadays, the problems of pension and medical care for aged parents confronted by the first generation of the one‐child...
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Does Impulsive Response to Internal and External Food Cues Lead to Higher Calorie Intake?: Self-Control and Food Intake
Asirvatham, Jebaraj - In: International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics … 7 (2018) 1, pp. 14-34
Measuring the impact of self-control on caloric intake has proved challenging in non-experimental studies. In this article, we study the relationship between self-control and food intake quantified by calories. Using validated behavioral measures, we find that impulsivity increases caloric...
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Evaluation of an Electronic Application for Nutritional Information in Food Service Outlets: A Pilot mHealth Application
Dimitriou, Maria; Giazitzi, Katerina; Stavridi, Evaggelia; … - In: International Journal of Reliable and Quality … 6 (2017) 1, pp. 46-58
Technological solutions provided to consumers with the aim of nutritional information, could be a major challenge of interaction among caterers and consumers. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate an Electronic Intelligent System of Personalized Dietary Advice (called “DISYS”) for tablets...
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Consequences and determinants of poor nutrition in children aged 0-3 years, and public health interventions that may improve dietary intake: a general review
Summerbell, Carolyn; Moore, Helen; O’Malley, Claire - In: Journal of Children's Services 9 (2014) 2, pp. 128-142
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the evidence base for effective public health interventions which aim to improve the diet of children aged zero to three years. Design/methodology/approach – General review. Findings – Key approaches and components of effective interventions...
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Battling the bulge: menu board calorie legislation and its potential impact on meal repurchase intentions
Bates, Kenneth; Burton, Scot; Huggins, Kyle; Howlett, … - In: Journal of Consumer Marketing 28 (2011) 2, pp. 104-113
, Seattle, and the states of Massachusetts and California. This paper aims to analyze whether nutrition disclosures are … necessary for the average consumer to identify meal calorific content, to address consumer motivation to attend to nutrition …/methodology/approach – To address issues related to nutrition labeling of chain restaurants, a food court field study and a longitudinal quasi …
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Anxiety and search during food choice: the moderating role of attitude towards nutritional claims
Hansen, Torben; Mukherjee, Ashesh; Uth Thomsen, Thyra - In: Journal of Consumer Marketing 28 (2011) 3, pp. 178-186
Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the effect of anxiety on information search during food choice and to test a key moderator of the effect of anxiety on search, namely attitude towards nutritional claims. Design/methodology/approach – By means of qualitative study the paper...
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Perceived health benefits and food purchasing decisions
Darian, Jean C.; Tucci, Louis - In: Journal of Consumer Marketing 28 (2011) 6, pp. 421-428
Purpose – The purpose of this research is to investigate the relative importance to consumers of different health benefits of food. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses conjoint analysis to investigate the relative importance of five health benefits to consumers in their intention...
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Developing marketing strategies to increase vegetable consumption
Darian, Jean C.; Tucci, Louis - In: Journal of Consumer Marketing 30 (2013) 5, pp. 427-435
clusters. Findings – The results show that, for food in general, nutrition and impact on weight are more important than value … for money, ease of preparation and taste. However, for vegetables, while the nutrition and weight benefits are very …
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Behavioral and lifestyle influences on reported calorie intake: a latent class model
Popovich, Deidre - In: Journal of Consumer Marketing 34 (2017) 3, pp. 214-225
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the behavioral and lifestyle influences on reported calorie intake. Marketing segmentation techniques applied to self-reported food consumption can offer benefits to both health policy and marketing research. Design/methodology/approach The two-stage...
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