Promoting physical activity among South Asian women with coronary heart disease and diabetes: What might help?

Family Practice

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-76

  Sriskantharajah, Janani ^a   Kai, Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Diabetes; Exercise; Physical activity; South Asian

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE COURSE; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; INTERVIEW; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MOTIVATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SOCIALIZATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH ASIA; UNITED KINGDOM; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; ASIA, WESTERN; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXERCISE; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RISK FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33947371216     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cml066     Document Type: Article

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