HealthKick: Formative assessment of the health environment in low-resource primary schools in the Western Cape Province of South Africa

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  De Villiers, Anniza ^a   Steyn, Nelia P ^b   Draper, Catherine E ^c   Fourie, Jean M ^a   Barkhuizen, Gerhard ^d   Lombard, Carl J ^a   Dalais, Lucinda ^b   Abrahams, Zulfa ^b,e   Lambert, Estelle V ^c  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d Western Cape Department of Education   (South Africa)

^e Heart and Stroke Foundation of Southern Africa   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Non communicable diseases; Nutrition; Physical activity; School health environment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DIET; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; POVERTY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SCHOOL; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

CHILD; DIET; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; POVERTY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 84866170579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-794     Document Type: Article

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