The association between walking to school, daily step counts and meeting step targets in 5- to 17-year-old Australian children

Pediatric Exercise Science

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 520-532

  Abbott, Rebecca A ^a   Macdonald, Doune ^a   Nambiar, Smita ^a   Davies, Peter S W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL ADMISSION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAVEL; WALKING;

EID: 71649088256     PISSN: 08998493     EISSN: 15432920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/pes.21.4.520     Document Type: Article

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