Physical activity: Health impact, prevalence, correlates and interventions.

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To provide a broad overview of the state of physical activity (PA) research in the form of (1) definitions of PA, (2) health benefits, (3) prevalence, (4) correlates and (5) interventions.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Psychol Health

Title: Psychology & health

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

ISSN (Electronic): 1476-8321

ISSN (Print): 0887-0446

Publication date (Electronic): Aug 2017

Volume: 32

Issue: 8

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[1 ] a Behavioural Medicine Laboratory, School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education , University of Victoria , Victoria , Canada.

[2 ] b School of Kinesiology and Health Studies , Queen's University , Kingston , Canada.

[3 ] c School of Kinesiology , University of British Columbia , Vancouver , Canada.

[4 ] d School of Public Health , University of Sydney , Sydney , Australia.

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DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2017.1325486

PubMed ID: 28554222

SO-VID: 60759226-d36a-43bb-ae8f-55b8e0dc53a0

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Keywords: exercise,health,intervention

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