Ask me 3: Improving communication in a hispanic pediatric outpatient practice

American Journal of Health Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Mika, Virginia Seguin ^a   Wood, Pamela R ^b   Weiss, Barry D ^d   Treviño, Leah ^c  

^a South Texas Health Research Center   (United States)

^b Department of Pediatrics ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Health literacy; Hispanic; Literacy; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548555715     PISSN: 10873244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5993/ajhb.31.s1.15     Document Type: Article

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