Cost-effectiveness of Weight Watchers and the Lighten Up to a Healthy Lifestyle program

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 240-247

  Cobiac, Linda ^a   Vos, Theo ^a   Veerman, Lennert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Diet; Exercise; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BODY MASS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIET; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LIFESTYLE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BODY MASS INDEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIET; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; WEIGHT LOSS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956020089     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2010.00520.x     Document Type: Article

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