If You Build It, They Will Come: Lessons From Developing Walking Trails in Rural Missouri

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 387-394

  Wiggs, Imogene ^a   Brownson, Ross C ^a   Baker, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

collaboration; environmental change; health benefits; needs assessment; stakeholders

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WALKING;

COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MAINTENANCE; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MISSOURI; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PILOT PROJECTS; POVERTY AREAS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; WALKING;

EID: 58849125446     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839906289233     Document Type: Article

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