Creating neighbourhood groupings based on built environment features to facilitate health promotion activities

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2012, Pages

  Schopflocher, Donald ^a   VanSpronsen, Eric ^a   Spence, John C ^a   Vallianatos, Helen ^a   Raine, Kim D ^a   Plotnikoff, Ronald C ^b   Nykiforuk, Candace I J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Built environment; Health promotion; Knowledge exchange; Obesity reduction; Quantitative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874222227     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403837     Document Type: Article

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