General practitioner opinion of weight management interventions in New Zealand

Journal of Primary Health Care

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 212-220

  Claridge, Rosemary ^a   Gray, Lesley ^a   Stubbe, Maria ^a   Macdonald, Lindsay ^a   Tester, Rachel ^a   Dowell, Anthony C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Body weight change; General practice; Obesity; Primary health care; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BARIATRIC SURGERY; DIET; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; OBESITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OVERWEIGHT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL NORM;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BARIATRIC SURGERY; DIET; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL NORMS;

EID: 84906908219     PISSN: 11726164     EISSN: 11726156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/hc14212     Document Type: Article

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