Individual- and area-level disparities in access to the road network, subway system and a public bicycle share program on the Island of Montreal, Canada

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Fuller, Daniel ^a   Gauvin, Lise ^b,c   Kestens, Yan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Access; Deprivation; Health; Inequities; Transportation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BICYCLE; CANADA; CAR DRIVING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RAILWAY; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; URBAN POPULATION; CYCLING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BICYCLING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUEBEC; RAILROADS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSPORTATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84879106282     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12160-012-9433-y     Document Type: Article

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