Ten-year follow-up of the Cretan Health and Nutrition Education Program on children's physical activity levels

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 442-446

  Manios, Yannis ^a   Kafatos, Irene ^a   Kafatos, Anthony ^b  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Childhood; Health education; Physical activity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NUTRITION EDUCATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREECE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 37849189260     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2006.06.001     Document Type: Article

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