Exploring the Food and Physical Activity Environments and Their Influence on Healthy Behaviors

Exploring the Food and Physical Activity Environments and Their Influence on Healthy Behaviors

Using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, community members, community stakeholders, and academic researchers from Virginia Tech formed a community-academic partnership in 2009. In the formative months, the coalition decided to focus on reducing obesity in the region. The coal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Waters, Clarice Nhat-Hien
Other Authors:	Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise
Format:	Others
Published:	Virginia Tech 2013
Subjects:	community-based participatory research environment fruit and vegetable intake physical activity health disparate
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/24198

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