Determinants of activity-friendly neighborhoods for children: Results from the SPACE study

American Journal of Health Promotion

Volumn 21, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2007, Pages 312-316

  De Vries, Sanne I ^a,b   Bakker, Ingrid ^a,b   Van Mechelen, Willem ^b   Hopman Rock, Marijke ^a,b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Manuscript format: research; Outcome measure: behavioral; Physical Activity, Environment Design, Children, Prevention Research; Research purpose: modeling relationship testing; Setting: local community; Study design: nonexperimental

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD CARE; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONSTRUCTION WORK; CYCLING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TRAFFIC; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WALKING;

EID: 33947128533     PISSN: 08901171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4278/0890-1171-21.4s.312     Document Type: Article

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