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Urban Fitness Centers: Removing Barriers to Promote Exercise in Underserved Communities
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 21, Number 1, February 2010
- pp. 221-228
- 10.1353/hpu.0.0239
- Article
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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.
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