Asthma: In Plain Language

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 334-340

  Rudd, Rima E ^a   Zobel, Emily K ^a   Fanta, Christopher H ^b   Surkan, Pamela ^c   Rodriguez Louis, Jacqueline ^c   Valderrama, Yvette ^b   Daltroy, Lawren H ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Brigham and Women’s Hospital ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

asthma; literacy; patient education

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AWARENESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PILOT STUDY; SELF CARE; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASTHMA; AWARENESS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SELF CARE; TERMINOLOGY; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 4644329346     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839903257771     Document Type: Article

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