General practitioners' promotion of healthy life styles: What patients think

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 195-200

  Richmond, Robyn ^a   Kehoe, Linda ^a   Heather, Nick ^b   Wodak, Alex ^a,c   Webster, Ian ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Northern Regional Drug and Alcohol Services   (United Kingdom)

^c SYDNEY SOUTH WEST AREA HEALTH SERVICE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DIET; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0030054745     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.1996.tb01818.x     Document Type: Article

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