Health literacy: How visuals can help tell the healthcare story

Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 28-32

  Osborne, Helen ^a  

^a Health Literacy Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; TEACHING;

HUMANS; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TEACHING MATERIALS;

EID: 34447543430     PISSN: 17453054     EISSN: 17453062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01405110600772830     Document Type: Review

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