Activity-friendly neighbourhoods can benefit non-communicable and infectious diseases

Cities and Health

Volumn 5, Issue sup1, 2021, Pages S191-S195

  Adlakha, Deepti ^a   Sallis, James F ^b,c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

COVID 19; density; physical activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85131604813     PISSN: 23748834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2020.1783479     Document Type: Article

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