Journal article
Urban Fitness Centers: Removing Barriers to Promote Exercise in Underserved Communities
Journal of health care for the poor and underserved, v 21(1), pp 221-228
01 Feb 2010
PMID: 20173264
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Abstract
African Americans, women, the elderly, obese people, and those in underserved communities are less likely than others to participate in leisure-time physical activity. Mercy Catholic Medical Center opened two fitness centers in low-income, predominately minority Philadelphia neighborhoods. Obese/overweight women from ethnic minorities living in low-income neighborhoods participated most frequently. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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- Title
- Urban Fitness Centers: Removing Barriers to Promote Exercise in Underserved Communities
- Creators
- Paul Choitz - Mercy Health SystemMichael JohnsonZekarias BerhaneGrace LefeverJennifer AndersonArnold Eiser
- Publication Details
- Journal of health care for the poor and underserved, v 21(1), pp 221-228
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics; General Internal Medicine
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000274700800014
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-77249089850
- Other Identifier
- 991019167414304721
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