Physical activity recommendations for health: What should Europe do?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Oja, Pekka ^a   Bull, Fiona C ^b   Fogelholm, Mikael ^c   Martin, Brian W ^d  

^a UKK INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH PROMOTION RESEARCH   (Finland)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ACADEMY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; EUROPE; EXERCISE; FITNESS; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STANDARD; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; AGED; BONE DENSITY; EUROPE; EXERCISE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PUBLIC HEALTH; WEIGHT-BEARING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77449130870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-10     Document Type: Article

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