TY - JOUR AU - Pearce, Claire AU - Rychetnik, Lucie AU - Wutzke, Sonia AU - Wilson, Andrew PY - 2019 DA - 2019/07/05 TI - Obesity prevention and the role of hospital and community-based health services: a scoping review JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 453 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Control of obesity is an important priority to reduce the burden of chronic disease. Clinical guidelines focus on the role of primary healthcare in obesity prevention. The purpose of this scoping review is to examine what the published literature indicates about the role of hospital and community based health services in adult obesity prevention in order to map the evidence and identify gaps in existing research. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4262-3 DO - 10.1186/s12913-019-4262-3 ID - Pearce2019 ER -