Prevention and treatment of obesity

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Lifestyle coaches as a central professional in the health care network? Dynamic changes over time using a network analysis

“…Only a few lifestyle coaches in the CooL pilot had a natural aptitude for this competence. This was observed in a previous study [ 17 ], but it was also evident in this study. Today, most training programmes for lifestyle coaches have integrated entrepreneurship into their programmes.…”

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