Objective assessment of urban built environment related to physical activity - Development, reliability and validity of the China Urban Built Environment Scan Tool (CUBEST)

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Su, Meng ^a   Du, Yu Kun ^a   Liu, Qing Min ^b   Ren, Yan Jun ^b   Kawachi, Ichiro ^c   Lv, Jun ^a   Li, Li Ming ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b HANGZHOU CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental scan; Physical activity; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84893193600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-109     Document Type: Article

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