Arranging Appropriate Activities. Immigrant Women's Ideas of Enabling Exercise

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 413-422

  Södergren, Marita ^a   Hylander, Ingrid ^a   Törnkvist, Lena ^a   Sundquist, Jan ^a   Sundquist, Kristina ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILE; COMMUNITY LIVING; EXERCISE; EXPERIENCE; IMMIGRANT; IRAQ; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; SWEDEN; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; IRAQ; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN; TURKEY;

EID: 50649101099     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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