Older adults' outdoor walking and the built environment: Does income matter? Environmental health

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Winters, M ^a,b   Barnes, R ^a,b   Venners, Scott ^b   Ste Marie, N ^b   McKay, H ^a   Sims Gould, J ^a   Ashe, Mc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WALKING;

AGED; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCOME; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL CLASS; WALKING;

EID: 84941366892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2224-1     Document Type: Article

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