Short assessment of health literacy-Spanish and english: A comparable test of health literacy for spanish and english speakers

Health Services Research

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1105-1120

  Lee, Shoou Yih Daniel ^a   Stucky, Brian D ^b   Lee, Jessica Y ^c   Rozier, R Gary ^a   Bender, Deborah E ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

English speakers; Health literacy; SAHL S E; Spanish speakers; test instrument

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MALE; RELIABILITY; SPAIN; VALIDITY; WORD RECOGNITION;

COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NORTH CAROLINA; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77954487072     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01119.x     Document Type: Article

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