Non-participants in a preventive health examination for cardiovascular disease: Characteristics, reasons for non-participation, and willingness to participate in the future

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 248-251

  Wall, Mikael ^a   Teeland, Lawrence ^b  

^a Primary Health Care Gästrikland   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Non response; Physical examination; Primary healthcare; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SMOKING; SWEDEN;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 10044256423     PISSN: 02813432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02813430410006611     Document Type: Article

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