The SOL formulas for converting SMOG readability scores between health education materials written in Spanish, English, and French

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-29

  Contreras, Alfonso ^a,c   García Alonso, Rafael ^a   Echenique, Marta ^a   Daye Contreras, Fedora ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b HealthWorks   (Spain)

^c BASICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH EDUCATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; READING;

COMMUNICATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; READING; TRANSLATING;

EID: 0032600886     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/108107399127066     Document Type: Article

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