The portion of health care costs associated with lifestyle-related modifiable health risks based on a sample of 223,461 employees in seven industries: The UM-HMRC Study

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1284-1290

  O'Donnell, Michael P ^a   Schultz, Alyssa B ^a   Yen, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; EMPLOYEE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESTYLE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84983156588     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000600     Document Type: Article

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