Insights from an observational assessment of park-based physical activity in Nanchang, China

Preventive Medicine Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 930-934

  Tu, Hong ^a   Liao, Xiong ^a   Schuller, Kristyn ^b   Cook, Angelie ^b   Fan, Si ^a   Lan, Guilian ^a   Lu, Yuanan ^a,b   Yuan, Zhaokang ^a   Moore, Justin B ^c   Maddock, Jay E ^a,d  

^a NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Community; Obesity; Physical activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; DANCING; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QIGONG; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SITTING; TAI CHI; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84946728724     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22113355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2015.08.022     Document Type: Article

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