Virtually impossible: Limiting Australian children and adolescents daily screen based media use

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Houghton, Stephen ^a   Hunter, Simon C ^b   Rosenberg, Michael ^a   Wood, Lisa ^a   Zadow, Corinne ^a   Martin, Karen ^a   Shilton, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Australia; Children; Guidelines; Screen activities; Screen use

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; COMPUTER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PEDIATRICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TELEVISION; TIME; UTILIZATION; VIDEO GAME;

ADOLESCENT; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; COMPUTERS; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIATRICS; TELEVISION; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84924324475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-15-5     Document Type: Article

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