Public Lecture: Parks and recreation: converging issues in urban cultural planning and national and provincial parks
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Parks, Recreation, and Public Health Collaborative
The primary goal of many park and recreation agencies is to provide resources and programs that improve quality of life for the community. Increasing physical activity is one aspect of this agenda. Promoting physical activity is a public health goal; however, increasing population-level physical activity will require access to places for physical activity (e.g. parks). Practitioners and policy ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Stream: Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1916-5897
DOI: 10.21810/strm.v7i1.111