What we can say: Disease illiteracy

Journal of Association of Physicians of India

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Beniwal, Sunil ^a   Sharma, Bharat Bhushan ^a   Singh, Virendra ^a  

^a SMS MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79958785486     PISSN: 00045772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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