Prevention of unhealthy behaviour by youth health care in The Netherlands

Background. In this study the effect is assessed of (repeated) well-care visits and freely accessible consultation hours at secondary schools on the prevalence of adolescent health-comprising behaviour and later obesity. Method. An ecological case-referent study design was used with data from the Netherlands Bureau of Statistics, the Ministry of Defence, the 1992 High-School Student Study, all youth health care departments in The Netherlands and relevant census. Data from the High-School Student Study included 4569 students aged 12-18 years, of whom 4167 had answered all questions on health-co... Mehr ...