Health literacy: New packaging for health education or radical movement?

International Journal of Public Health

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-4

  Wills, Jane ^a  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 59749104165     PISSN: 16618556     EISSN: 1420911X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-008-8141-7     Document Type: Editorial

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