The importance of Active Transportation to and from school for daily physical activity among children

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 196-200

  Pabayo, Roman ^a,b   Maximova, Katerina ^a   Spence, John C ^a   Ploeg, Kerry Vander ^a   Wu, Biao ^a   Veugelers, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Active Transportation to and from school; Children; Epidemiology; Health; Physical activity; Physical activity guidelines; Public

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD GROWTH; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PEDOMETER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; STUDENT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; URBAN AREA;

ALBERTA; BICYCLING; CHILD; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS; URBAN POPULATION; WALKING;

EID: 84866041515     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.06.008     Document Type: Article

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