Revising the senior walking environmental assessment tool

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 247-249

  Michael, Yvonne L ^a,b   Keast, Erin M ^a   Chaudhury, Habib ^c   Day, Kristen ^d   Mahmood, Atiya ^e   Sarte, Ann F I ^c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Instrumentation; Older adults; Reproducibility of results; Research design; Residence characteristics; Walking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOOL USE; WALKING;

AGED; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; WALKING;

EID: 61849174785     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2008.12.008     Document Type: Article

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