Preventive Services in a Health Maintenance Organization
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Obesity, health services use, and health care costs among members of a health maintenance organization.
BACKGROUND Obesity is an independent risk factor for a variety of chronic diseases and is therefore a potential source of avoidable excess health care expenditures. Previous studies of obesity and health care costs have used group level data, applying estimates of population-attributable risks to estimates of US total costs of care for each obesity-related disease. OBJECTIVE To quantify the a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1072-4710
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.154.2.173