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Features: Parks and Recreation and the Surgeon General's Report—Part 3

Physical Activity for Women: What Park and Recreation Departments Can Do

M. Deborah Bialeschki Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599
Pages 36-39 | Published online: 22 Feb 2013

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