General practitioners' views and experiences of counselling for physical activity through the New Zealand green prescription program

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Patel, Asmita ^a   Schofield, Grant M ^a   Kolt, Gregory S ^a,b   Keogh, Justin W L ^a,c  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COUNSELING; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEW ZEALAND; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COUNSELING; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTHY PEOPLE PROGRAMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 80055109634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-12-119     Document Type: Article

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