Involving community stakeholders to increase park use and physical activity

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue , 2014, Pages 14-19

  Derose, Kathryn Pitkin ^a   Marsh, Terry ^a   Mariscal, Mark ^b   Pina Cortez, Sophia ^c   Cohen, Deborah A ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks   (United States)

^c Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based participatory research; Exercise; Recreation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MARKETING; NATIONAL PARK; NEIGHBORHOOD; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECREATION; SCALE UP; UNITED STATES; WALKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ETHNIC GROUP; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SANITATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDS; TRENDS;

COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; ETHNIC GROUPS; EXERCISE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MARKETING OF HEALTH SERVICES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC FACILITIES; RECREATION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84898678267     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.03.019     Document Type: Article

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