Patient and practitioner literacy and women's health: A global view from the closing decade 1990-2000

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 248-258

  Tomlinson, Louise M ^a  

^a ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Dominica)

Author keywords

Child health; Global health; Patient literacy; Pratitioner literacy; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; COMMUNITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOTHER; PERCEPTION; PREVALENCE; REVIEW;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0037498514     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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