Exploring the built environment, physical activity and related behaviours of young people attending school, college and those not in employment | Zendy

Amelia A. Lake | Zendy; Tim Townshend | Zendy

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Exploring the built environment, physical activity and related behaviours of young people attending school, college and those not in employment

Author(s) -

Amelia A. Lake,

Tim Townshend

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fds059

Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , psychological intervention , physical activity , focus group , built environment , gerontology , psychology , perception , social environment , developmental psychology , medicine , geography , sociology , engineering , social science , physical medicine and rehabilitation , civil engineering , archaeology , neuroscience , psychiatry , anthropology

Evidence suggests that environments impact behaviour, including physical activity (PA). The aim was to understand where young people are physically active and the environmental contexts to their activity. To explore how they perceived both barriers to, and enablers for, PA in their environment.

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