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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on April 9, 2009
American Journal of Epidemiology 2009 169(9):1166; doi:10.1093/aje/kwp058
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2009. Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

BOOK REVIEW

Epidemiologic Methods in Physical Activity Studies

Edited by I-Min Lee, Steven Blair, JoAnn Manson, and Ralph S. Paffenbarger, Jr.

Donna Spruijt-Metz

Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Alhambra, CA 91801

(e-mail: dmetz@usc.edu)

ISBN: 978-0-19-518300-9, Oxford University Press, New York, New York (Telephone: 800-445-9714, Fax: 919-677-1303, E-mail: custserv.us@oup.com, Website: http://www.oup.com), 2008, 352 pp., $55 Hardcover

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Epidemiologic Methods in Physical Activity Studies is a unique addition to the field of physical activity research. The opening chapter provides an overview of the post–World War II beginnings of current physical activity research in public health, with a focus on the methodological challenges that the field faced early on and some of the solutions developed at the time. This chapter sets . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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