The proportion of youths’ physical inactivity attributable to neighbourhood built environment features
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The proportion of youths’ physical inactivity attributable to neighbourhood built environment features
OBJECTIVE We investigated the independent association between several neighbourhood built environment features and physical inactivity within a national sample of Canadian youth, and estimated the proportion of inactivity within the population that was attributable to these built environment features. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of 6626 youth aged 11-15 years from 272 schools acr...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Health Geographics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1476-072X
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072x-12-31