Effectiveness of Australia's Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service®: Translational research with population wide impact

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 292-298

  O'Hara, Blythe J ^a   Phongsavan, Philayrath ^a   Venugopal, Kamalesh ^a   Eakin, Elizabeth G ^b   Eggins, Dianne ^c   Caterson, Hugh ^a   King, Lesley ^a   Allman Farinelli, Margaret ^a   Haas, Marion ^d   Bauman, Adrian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Cancer Institute   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lifestyle interventions; Obesity; Telephone based counselling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FRUIT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELECONSULTATION; TELEPHONE; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; VEGETABLE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MENTORS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGRAM EVALUATION; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84867395363     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.07.022     Document Type: Article

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