Physical activity for adolescents living in a disadvantaged neighbourhood: Views of parents and adolescents on needs, barriers, facilitators, and programming

Leisure/ Loisir

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 537-561

  Beaulac, Julie ^a   Bouchard, Danielle ^b   Kristjansson, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Barriers and facilitators to physical activity; Community based; Disadvantaged community; Physical activity intervention; Young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859143846     PISSN: 14927713     EISSN: 21512221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2009.9651452     Document Type: Article

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