Low health literacy and poor health status in Asian americans and pacific islanders in Hawai'i

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 16, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2011, Pages 279-294

  Sentell, Tetine ^a   Baker, Kay Kromer ^b   Onaka, Alvin ^b   Braun, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Office of Health Status Monitoring   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HAWAII; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; OVERWEIGHT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053536651     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2011.604390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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