Social support and the likelihood of maintaining and improving levels of physical activity: the Whitehall II Study.

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Published in Eur J Public Health on July 12, 2011

Authors

Anne Kouvonen1, Roberto De Vogli, Mai Stafford, Martin J Shipley, Michael G Marmot, Tom Cox, Jussi Vahtera, Ari Väänänen, Tarja Heponiemi, Archana Singh-Manoux, Mika Kivimäki

Author Affiliations

1: Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wroclaw Faculty, Wroclaw, Poland. anne.kouvonen@gmail.com

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