Physical activity of canadian children and youth: Accelerometer results from the 2007 to 2009 canadian health measures survey

Health Reports

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Colley, Rachel C ^a   Garriguet, Didier ^b   Janssen, Ian ^d   Craig, Cora L ^e   Clarke, Janine ^c   Tremblay, Mark S ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Health Analysis Division   (Canada)

^c Physical Health Measures Division at Statistics   (Canada)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Actical; Motion sensor.; Obesity; Pedometer; Public health; Sedentary behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857684133     PISSN: 08406529     EISSN: 12091367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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