Obesity, lifestyle risk-factors, and health service outcomes among healthy middle-aged adults in Canada

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Alter, David A ^a,b,d,f   Wijeysundera, Harindra C ^a,c,f   Franklin, Barry ^e   Austin, Peter C ^a,f   Chong, Alice ^a,f   Oh, Paul I ^a,b   Tu, Jack V ^a,c,f   Stukel, Therese A ^a,f  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Health care expenditures; Health service utilization; Obesity; Outcomes; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY MASS; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; LONG TERM CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LONG-TERM CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RISK FACTORS; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84866082625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-238     Document Type: Article

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