Nutrition
Volume 25, Issue 5 , Pages 532-539 , May 2009

A controlled intervention study of changing health-providers' attitudes toward personal lifestyle habits and health-promotion skills

  • Danit R. Shahar, R.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • S. Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
    • Department of Epidemiology and Health Services Administration, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +972-8-647-7452; fax: +972-8-647-7637
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  • Yaakov Henkin, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Cardiology Department, Soroka University Medical Center and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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  • Geila S. Rozen, R.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Nutrition Department, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
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  • Dorit Adler, R.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Nutrition Department, Hadassa Ein Carem, Jerusalem, Israel
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  • Orna Levy, R.D.

      Affiliations

    • Unilever Israel, Kiriat Sede Hateufa, Lod, Israel
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  • Carmit Safra, R.D.

      Affiliations

    • Unilever Israel, Kiriat Sede Hateufa, Lod, Israel
    • ,
  • Baruch Itzhak, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Specialist in Family Medicine, Israel
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  • Rachel Golan, R.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • S. Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
    • Department of Epidemiology and Health Services Administration, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
    • ,
  • Iris Shai, R.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • S. Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
    • Department of Epidemiology and Health Services Administration, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Received 20 August 2008 ,Accepted 12 November 2008.

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 The study was funded by Unilever Israel.

PII: S0899-9007(08)00494-2

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2008.11.020

Nutrition
Volume 25, Issue 5 , Pages 532-539 , May 2009

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