Walking to school: Frequency and predictors among primary school children in Dunedin, New Zealand

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 1271, 2008, Pages 51-58

  Yelavich, Sofie ^a   Towns, Cindy ^a   Burt, Richard ^a   Chow, Kent ^a   Donohue, Roana ^a   Sani, Haji S H ^a   Taylor, Keryn ^a   Gray, Andrew ^a   Eberhart Phillips, Jason ^a   Reeder, Anthony I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; OBESITY; PARENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTION; PRIMARY SCHOOL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; WALKING; FAMILY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CHILD; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 42949088587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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