Healthy Eating and Active Living: Rural-Based Working Men’s Perspectives

• Published in: American Journal of Men's Health
• Main Authors: Oliffe, John L., Bottorff, Joan L., Sharp, Paul, Caperchione, Cristina M., Johnson, Steven T., Healy, Theresa, Lamont, Sonia, Jones-Bricker, Margaret, Medhurst, Kerensa, Errey, Sally
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2015
• Subjects: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Health (social science); Canada; British Columbia; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988315619372; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1557988315619372; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/1557988315619372

There is a pressing need for health promotion programs focused on increasing healthy eating and active living among “unreached” rural-based men. The purpose of the current study was to describe rural-based working men’s views about health to distil acceptable workplace approaches to promoting men’s...