Literacy and language: Disentangling measures of access, utilization, and quality

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 288-290

  Schillinger, Dean ^a   Chen, Alice Hm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Asian Health Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MANAGED CARE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1642284864     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2004.40102.x     Document Type: Editorial

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