Increase in obesity and health-care use, from the Health Survey for England, ages 50 to 69, 1998

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1258-1262

  Popoola, Folasade A ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

England; Health expenditure; Health care use; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AMERICA; OBESITY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE;

EID: 7644220618     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/0960892042387138     Document Type: Review

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