Active Commuting to School
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Sports Medicine
- Vol. 31 (5) , 309-313
- https://doi.org/10.2165/00007256-200131050-00001
Abstract
The assessment and promotion of childrens’ healthful physical activity is important: (i) to combat the international obesity epidemic that extends to childhood; and (ii) to establish an early habit...Keywords
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