Low health literacy: Overview, assessment, and steps toward providing high-quality diabetes care

Diabetes Spectrum

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 220-227

  Wallace, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIABETES EDUCATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CARE; SELF REPORT;

EID: 79955462117     PISSN: 10409165     EISSN: 19447353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diaspect.23.4.220     Document Type: Review

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