Prevalence of physical inactivity in nine rural indepth health and demographic surveillance systems in five asian countries

Global Health Action

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 44-53

  Ng, Nawi ^a   Hakimi, Mohammad ^a   Van Minh, Hoang ^b   Juvekar, Sanjay ^c   Razzaque, Abdur ^d   Ashraf, Ali ^e   Ahmed, Syed Masud ^f   Kanungsukkasem, Uraiwan ^g   Soonthornthada, Kusol ^g   Bich, Tran Huu ^h  

^a Purworejo Health and Demographic Surveillance System   (Indonesia)

^b Filabavi Health and Demographic Surveillance System   (Viet Nam)

^c Vadu Health and Demographic Surveillance System   (India)

^d Matlab Health and Demographic Surveillance System   (Bangladesh)

^e AMK Health and Demographic Surveillance System   (Bangladesh)

^f WATCH Health and Demographic Surveillance System   (Bangladesh)

^g Kanchanaburi Health and Demographic Surveillance System   (Thailand)

^h Chililab Health and Demographic Surveillance System   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Asia; Chronic non communicable diseases; Low and middle income countries; Physical inactivity; Risk factors surveillance; WHO STEPS

Indexed keywords

EID: 85088286611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v2i0.1985     Document Type: Article

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