Pacific Islands families: Child and parental physical activity and body size-design and methodology

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 1298, 2009, Pages

  Oliver, Melody ^a   Schluter, Philip J ^a,b   Paterson, Janis ^a   Kolt, Gregory S ^c   Schofield, Grant M ^a  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MATERNAL WELFARE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBESITY; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ABORIGINE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; EXERCISE; HEALTH SURVEY; MOTHER; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEW ZEALAND; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHERS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEW ZEALAND; OBESITY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68349104753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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