Improving Americans' health literacy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 363, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 2283-2285

  Rudd, Rima E ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649902855     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1008755     Document Type: Short Survey

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