Workers' perceptions about worksite policies and environments and their association with liesure-time physical activity

American Journal of Health Promotion

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 196-200

  Lucove, Jaime C ^a,d   Huston, Sara L ^b   Evenson, Kelly R ^c  

^a Allscripts   (United States)

^b NC Division of Public Health   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Outcome measure: Behavioral; Physical activity; Policy environment; Research purpose: Modeling relationship testing, descriptive; Setting: Local community; Study design: Nonexperimental; Workplace. Manuscript format: Research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EMPLOYEE; EMPLOYER; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEISURE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POLICY; SAFETY; SALARY; TELEPHONE; WALKING; WORK SCHEDULE;

EID: 33846251285     PISSN: 08901171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4278/0890-1171-21.3.196     Document Type: Article

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