The 'Healthy Passport' intervention with older people in an English urban environment: Effects of incentives and peer-group organisers in promoting healthy living

Ageing and Society

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 525-549

  Holland, Carol A ^a   Everitt, Pauline ^b   Johnson, Angela ^c   Devi, Reena ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Agewell   (United Kingdom)

^c Sandwell Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health promotion; Incentives; Intervention; Older adults; Peer group organisers

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH STATUS; INCENTIVE; SOCIAL IMPACT; URBAN POPULATION;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WEST MIDLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 42149110284     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: 14691779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X07006939     Document Type: Article

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