The role of physical activity in minority populations

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 98-103

  Kriska, Andrea M ^a   Rexroad, Annette Reif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MINORITY GROUP; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032030833     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1049-3867(97)00103-5     Document Type: Article

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