Are messages about lifestyle walking being heard? Trends in walking for all purposes in New South Wales (NSW), Australia

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 341-344

  Merom, Dafna ^a   Chey, Tien ^a   Chau, Josephine ^a   Smith, Ben J ^a   Barr, Margo ^a   Bauman, Adrian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Inequality; Lifestyle walking; Socio demographic; Trend

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECREATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TELEPHONE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRAVEL; WALKING; AGE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63749117521     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2009.02.010     Document Type: Article

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