Patterns of attendance to health checks in a municipality setting: the Danish ‘Check Your Health Preventive Program’

Preventive Medicine Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2017, Pages 175-182

  Bjerregaard, Anne Louise ^a   Maindal, Helle T ^a,b   Bruun, Niels Henrik ^a   Sandbæk, Annelli ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b STENO DIABETES CENTER   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Attendance; Health checks; Health examinations; Prevention

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; LITHIUM; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; COHABITING PERSON; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECISION TREE; DENMARK; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IMMIGRANT; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; PATIENT ATTENDANCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 85007326261     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22113355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2016.12.011     Document Type: Article

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