Primary health care-level interventions targeting health literacy and their effect on weight loss: A systematic review

BMC Obesity

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Faruqi, Nighat ^a,b   Spooner, Catherine ^a,b   Joshi, Chandni ^a,b   Lloyd, Jane ^b   Dennis, Sarah ^b,c   Stocks, Nigel ^a,d   Taggart, Jane ^b   Harris, Mark F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health literacy; Intervention research; Obesity; Primary health care; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; OBESITY; ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIAL STATUS; STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84977561131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20529538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40608-015-0035-7     Document Type: Article

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