Active transport between home and school assessed with GPS: A cross-sectional study among Dutch elementary school children

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dessing, Dirk ^a,b   De Vries, Sanne I ^a,c   Graham, Jamie Ma ^a   Pierik, Frank H ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c THE HAGUE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Cycling; Elementary school; Global positioning system (GPS); Mode of transport; Walking

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYCLING; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; PROCEDURES; SCHOOL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WALKING;

BICYCLING; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS; TRANSPORTATION; WALKING;

EID: 84898031357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-227     Document Type: Article

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