Chronic disease risk factors, healthy days and medical claims in South African employees presenting for health risk screening

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kolbe Alexander, Tracy L ^a   Buckmaster, Chris ^a   Nossel, Craig ^b   Dreyer, Liezel ^b   Bull, Fiona ^c   Noakes, Timothy D ^a   Lambert, Estelle V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Discovery Health   (South Africa)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PRICK TEST; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SELF REPORT; SOUTH AFRICA; AGE; EVALUATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; INSURANCE; LIFESTYLE; MASS SCREENING; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REPORTING; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 47649089475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-228     Document Type: Article

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