Which factors engage women in deprived neighbourhoods to participate in exercise referral schemes?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Schmidt, Melanie ^a   Absalah, Saida ^a   Nierkens, Vera ^a   Stronks, Karien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; ETHNIC GROUP; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; DEMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NETHERLANDS; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NETHERLANDS; POVERTY AREAS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56349103632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-371     Document Type: Article

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