Scottish Keep Well health check programme: An interrupted time series analysis

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 924-929

  Geue, Claudia ^a   Lewsey, James D ^a   MacKay, Daniel F ^a   Antony, Grace ^a   Fischbacher, Colin M ^b   Muirie, Jill ^c   McCartney, Gerard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION   (United Kingdom)

^c Glasgow Centre for Population Health   (United Kingdom)

^d NHS HEALTH SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DESIGN; DRUG; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SCOTLAND; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERRUPTED TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND;

EID: 84964587085     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2015-206926     Document Type: Article

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