Physical activity: Perspectives of Mexican American and Anglo American midlife women

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 894-904

  Berg, Judith A ^a   Cromwell, Sandra L ^a   Arnett, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EXERCISE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ARIZONA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXERCISE; FOCUS GROUPS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036886646     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330290112399     Document Type: Article

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