Assessing physical activity among minority women: Focus group results

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 135-142

  Tortolero, Susan R ^a   Mâsse, Louise C ^a   Fulton, Janet E ^a   Torres, Isabel ^a   Kohl III, Harold W ^b  

^a Texas Prev Res Ctr Sch Pub H   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNIC GROUP; EXERCISE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINORITY GROUP; NEGRO; NOMENCLATURE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPORT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TEXAS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0344689838     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1049-3867(99)00004-3     Document Type: Article

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