Obesity, fitness, willingness to communicate and health care costs

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1535-1543

  Pronk, Nicolaas P ^a,b   Tan, Agnes W H ^a   O'Connor, Patrick ^a  

^a HEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Center for Health Promotion Minnesota Department of Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Health management organizations; Health risk assessment; Health risks; Managed care; Overweight; Physical activity; Readiness to change

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATION; OBESITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0032733603     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-199911000-00007     Document Type: Article

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