Not on the Radar: Active Commuting as a Workplace Wellness Issue

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2015, Pages e91-e92

  Tran, Molly ^a,b   Forst, Linda ^b   Buchanan, Susan ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE COMMUTING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAR DRIVING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXERCISE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MASS SCREENING; NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POLICY; REIMBURSEMENT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WALKING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WELLBEING; WORKPLACE; WORKPLACE WELLNESS; INTERVIEW; PROCEDURES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TRANSPORTATION; UNITED STATES; WALKING; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84957049959     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000515     Document Type: Letter

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