Applicability of the REALM health literacy test to an English second-language South African population

Pharmacy World and Science

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 464-471

  Dowse, Ros ^a   Lecoko, Lebo ^a   Ehlers, Martina S ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Health literacy; Literacy; Measurement; Reading level; Second language; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; COLITIS; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEMORRHOID; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPETIGO; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; NAUSEA; NORMAL HUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; READING; REALM TEST; SOUTH AFRICA; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; WORD LIST RECALL;

ADULT; AGED; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PILOT PROJECTS; READING; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 77956415034     PISSN: 09281231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11096-010-9392-y     Document Type: Article

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