Active living neighborhoods: Is neighborhood walkability a key element for Belgian adolescents?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  De Meester, Femke ^a   Van Dyck, Delfien ^a   De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse ^a   Deforche, Benedicte ^a,b   Sallis, James F ^c   Cardon, Greet ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BICYCLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LEISURE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPORT; TIME; WALKING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BELGIUM; BICYCLING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPORTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 84855296660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-7     Document Type: Article

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