Environmental, Policy, and Cultural Factors Related to Physical Activity in a Diverse Sample of Women
Subtitle: The Women's Cardiovascular Health Network Project
Publisher: Haworth Medical Press
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780789020000
Subjects: Women's studies; Women's Studies - General; Risk factors; Heart diseases in women; Science; Medical / Nursing; Science/Mathematics; Social medicine; Cardiology; Health behavior; Social Science; Chemistry - Physical & Theoretical; Prevention
First sentence: SUMMARY. Ethnic minority and low-income populations have some of the highest rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and the highest rates of physical inactivity, an independent risk factor for CVD.