Built environmental supports for walking

Physical Activity and Public Health Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 257-276

  Hooper, Paula ^a   Foster, Sarah ^a   Nathan, Andrea ^a   Giles Corti, Billie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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