Behavioral health risk factor profiles in general hospital patients: identifying the need for screening and brief intervention

Abstract Background Little is known about the clustering of behavioral health risk factors (HRFs), namely the occurrence of 16 specific combinations of tobacco smoking, at-risk alcohol use, overweight and physical inactivity in general hospital patients. Furthermore, social inequalities in HRFs, hea...

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Main Authors: Jennis Freyer-Adam, Florian Noetzel, Sophie Baumann, Ali Alexander Aghdassi, Ulrike Siewert-Markus, Beate Gaertner, Ulrich John
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Series:BMC Public Health
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7931-6