Shifting the Physical Inactivity Curve Worldwide by Closing the Gender Gap

Sports Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 481-489

  Mielke, Grégore I ^a,b   da Silva, Inacio Crochemore M ^b   Kolbe Alexander, Tracy L ^a,c   Brown, Wendy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PHYSICAL INACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED NATIONS; ADULT; EXERCISE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SEX FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 85021186198     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: 11792035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40279-017-0754-7     Document Type: Article

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