Relationship between health-related fitness and educational and income levels in Spanish women

Public Health

Volumn 122, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 794-800

  Saavedra, José M ^a   Torres, Silvia ^a   Caro, Berta ^a   Escalante, Yolanda ^a   la Cruz, Ernesto De ^a   Durán, María J ^b   Rodríguez, Ferran A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b Enfermería y Terapia Ocupacional   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Female; Health

Indexed keywords

AGE; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; INCOME; POPULATION SIZE; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMED CONSENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPAIN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL FITNESS; SPAIN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 46949091435     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2007.07.017     Document Type: Article

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