Failure to validate the Health Survey for England physical activity module in a cardiac population

Health Policy

Volumn 84, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 262-268

  Orrell, Alison ^a   Doherty, Patrick ^b   Coulton, Simon ^a   Miles, Jeremy ^a   Stamatakis, Emmanuel ^c   Lewin, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b YORK ST JOHN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health policy; Performance indicator; Physical activity

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 35448979047     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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