Obesity prevention and diabetes screening at local health departments

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1434-1441

  Zhang, Xinzhi ^a   Luo, Huabin ^b   Gregg, Edward W ^a   Mukhtar, Qaiser ^a   Rivera, Mark ^a   Barker, Lawrence ^a   Albright, Ann ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b Mount Olive College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION;

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASS SCREENING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATE GOVERNMENT; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION;

EID: 77954467358     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.168831     Document Type: Article

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