The association between leisure time physical activity and the risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality was analyzed in a Finnish cohort of 1,072 men age 35-63 years who were followed up for 10 years and 10 months. During the period, 168 deaths were recorded, 93 of which were the result of cardiovascular diseases. Leisure time physical activity was assessed by several measures: 1)...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the association between perceived environmental factors and leisure-time and transport-related physical activity. METHODS A random-digit-dialing telephone cross-sectional survey in Recife, Brazil, was conducted among individuals aged 16 years or older (n = 2046). Leisure-time and transport-related physical activity were measured using the long version of the Internation...

Synopsis This paper examines the impact of customer expectations on the management of public leisure services, arguing that public leisure providers will need to shift their attention from the management of service quality, to focus on the management of customer expectations of their services. Improving the quality of public leisure services has been a goal for successive governments; quality m...

The authors undertook a review of the literature, focussing on publications describing the following: (1) Pure tone threshold data for adolescents/young adults; (2) Measurements/estimates of noise exposure from leisure activities; and (3) The relationship between hearing threshold levels (HTLs) and leisure-noise exposure. There is a large volume of published materials relevant to these topics, ...

the way people spend their leisure is a reflection of social, economic, and cultural capital in any given society. the present research studies the influence of cultural capital on leisure using survey method. instrument used to collect data has been: questionnaire. the statistical population constitutes all women living in the city of juybar aged 15-64. based on the results of the latest censu...

This study uses cluster analysis to relate demographic variables and leisure activities. A cluster analysis of subscribers and ex-subscribers of an Australian online DVD rental company yielded four clusters with significant differences in preferences for traditional and ICT-mediated leisure activities. For practitioners, the study illustrates how profiling customers on their leisure preferences...