"It is about being outside": Canadian youth's perspectives of good health and the environment

Health and Place

Volumn 31, Issue , 2015, Pages 100-110

  Woodgate, Roberta L ^a   Skarlato, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environment; Health; Sense of place; Space; Youth

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HEALTH CARE; NUTRITION; SENSE OF PLACE; YOUNG POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CANADIAN; CHILD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; FEMALE; FOOD QUALITY; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JUVENILE; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SENSE OF PLACE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOIL QUALITY; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WATER QUALITY; WELLBEING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; YOUNG ADULT;

CANADA;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84913591108     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: 18732054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.11.008     Document Type: Article

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