Joint impact of health risks on health care charges: 7-Year follow-up of National Health Insurance beneficiaries in Japan (the Ohsaki Study)

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1194-1199

  Kuriyama, Shinichi ^a   Hozawa, Atsushi ^a   Ohmori, Kaori ^a   Suzuki, Yoshinori ^a   Nishino, Yoshikazu ^a   Fujita, Kazuki ^a   Tsubono, Yoshitaka ^a   Tsuji, Ichiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Health care charges; Japan; Joint exposure; Obesity; Physical inactivity; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; JAPAN; MALE; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; WALKING;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; JAPAN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 7944223100     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.04.033     Document Type: Article

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