Advising overweight persons about diet and physical activity in primary health care: Lithuanian health behaviour monitoring study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Klumbiene, Jurate ^a   Petkeviciene, Janina ^a   Vaisvalavicius, Vytautas ^a   Miseviciene, Irena ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; LITHUANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REGISTER; SELF REPORT; WEIGHT REDUCTION; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LITHUANIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; OVERWEIGHT; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 33644545385     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-30     Document Type: Article

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