Prompting lifestyle interventions to promote weight loss is safe, effective and patient-centred: Yes

Ross Lawrenson

doi:10.1071/HC23167

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Prompting lifestyle interventions to promote weight loss is safe, effective and patient-centred: Yes

Ross Lawrenson

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¹ Te Huataki Waiora School of Health, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

^* Correspondence to: ross.lawrenson@waikato.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 15(4) 382-384 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC23167

Submitted: 8 December 2023 Accepted: 8 December 2023 Published: 16 December 2023

© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

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