Patient health literacy and participation in the health-care process

Health Expectations

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 113-122

  Ishikawa, Hirono ^a,b,c   Yano, Eiji ^b  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Health literacy; Information seeking; Patient participation; Patient physician communication

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 44249118072     PISSN: 13696513     EISSN: 13697625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2008.00497.x     Document Type: Review

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