Who proficts from visual aids: Overcoming challenges in people's understanding of risks

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1019-1025

  Garcia Retamero, Rocio ^a,b   Galesic, Mirta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Germany; Graph literacy in health; Numeracy; Risk communication; USA; Visual aids

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMMUNICATION; GRAPHICAL METHOD; HEALTH EDUCATION; LITERACY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VISUALIZATION;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; PROBABILITY; RISK REDUCTION; SKILL; UNITED STATES; VISUAL AID; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

GERMANY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; COMPREHENSION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951240798     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.11.031     Document Type: Article

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