The impact of additional weekdays of active commuting to school on children achieving a criterion of 300+ minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity

Health Education Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 428-434

  Daly Smith, Andy J W ^a   McKenna, Jim ^a   Radley, Duncan ^a   Long, Jonathan ^a  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active commuting; children; logistic regression; segmented day

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECORDING;

EID: 83655197464     PISSN: 00178969     EISSN: 17488176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0017896910379367     Document Type: Article

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