People's intentions are mainly determined by perceived barriers and obstacles regarding blood donations. This suggests that promotional strategies should focus on the elimination of barriers to action as well as the development of a higher perception of control. Also, messages should be adapted to the targeted population, based on their previous blood donation behaviour (i.e. never donors vs. ever donors).

School-based interventions show promising results to reduce SSB consumption among adolescents. A number of recommendations are made to improve future studies.

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The authors' goal was to identify factors explaining intention to encourage a patient to follow complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatment among general practitioners (GPs), fourth-year medical students, and residents in family medicine. They surveyed 500 GPs and 904 medical students via a self-administered mailed questionnaire that they based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. Respondents expressed a neutral level of intention to encourage CAM approach. Variables explaining 75% of variance of intention of all participants were: moral norm, beta=0.34, p<.0001; perceived behavioral control, beta=0.29, p<.0001; attitude, beta=0.22, p<.0001; descriptive norm, beta=0.13, p<.0001; and professional status, (GPs, beta=-0.07, p<.0001; residents, beta=-0.07, p<.0001). Facilitating conditions and developing a better perception of control over perceived obstacles could help enhance health-care practitioners' intentions to use CAM. Also, a clear position on the part of the medical community would help to define a professional norm in line with the moral norm.

Implementation of healthy food procurement policies can increase Canadians' access to healthier foods as part of a broader vision for food policy in Canada.

2014),"Consumers' behaviors when eating out: Does eating out change consumers' intention to eat healthily?", British Food Journal, Vol. 116 Iss 3 pp. 494-509 http://dx.If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -Easy access to fast-food restaurants in the immediate environment of a high school is such that a high proportion of students do not remain in school for lunch. Hence, the probability that they will eat a healthy meal is reduced. The aim of this study is to identify the behavioral determinants of "staying in school to eat lunch" among high school students. Design/methodology/approach -The Theory of Planned Behavior has been applied to the development of a questionnaire self-administered among 153 randomly selected high school students. Findings -Overall, 52.3 percent of students remained to eat at school every day during a follow-up period of two weeks. Logistic regression analyses showed that intention (OR: 16.22; 95 percent CI 7.08-37.21) was the sole predictor of behavior and that intention was determined by the descriptive norm (OR: 12.67; 95 percent CI 3.39-47.27), perceived behavioral control (OR: 11.46; 95 percent CI 4.53-29.04) and attitude (OR: 2.70; 95 percent CI 1.06-6.85). Practical implications -These findings suggest that a combination of interventions targeting both various individual determinants and environmental factors increases the likelihood that youngsters will remain at school to eat their lunch. Originality/value -To the best of one's knowledge, this is the first study applying the Theory of Planned Behavior to understand why high school students do not stay in school to eat lunch. This information should be very useful to those interested in developing interventions to promote the policy that students should stay in school to eat their lunch instead of going out to fast food restaurants in the nearby environment.

This paper presents the results of an experimental investigation on the behaviour of steel column base connections. The connection is effected by means of a steel base plate welded to the lower end of the column and attached to the concrete footing with two or four anchor bolts. The testing program comprised 15 specimens. The measured moment–rotation curves were used to determine the fixity factors of the base connections, taking into account the presence of an axial compression load.The results indicate that the compression force in the column significantly increases the flexural stiffness of the base connection and that the rotational restraint offered by the column base is sufficient to be considered in design. The results also show that the method of analysis used to determine the ultimate moment capacity of the base connection is conservative. Key words: steel column, column base connection, moment–rotation curve, anchor bolt, flexibility factor, fixity factor.