Socio-demographic factors as correlates of active commuting to school in Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 412-416

  Bere, Elling ^a   van der Horst, Klazine ^b   Oenema, Anke ^b   Prins, Rick ^b   Brug, Johannes ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active commuting; Adolescents; Correlates; Cycling; School; Walking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYCLING; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NETHERLANDS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; WALKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; BICYCLING; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OVERWEIGHT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION; URBAN POPULATION; WALKING;

EID: 53049083727     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2008.06.019     Document Type: Article

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