School-based physical activity interventions: Effectiveness, trends, issues, implications and recommendations for practice

Sport, Education and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 401-420

  Cale, Lorraine ^a   Harris, Jo ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Physical activity interventions; Physical activity promotion; School; Young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748499831     PISSN: 13573322     EISSN: 14701243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13573320600924890     Document Type: Review

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