Health literacy and public health: A systematic review and integration of definitions and models

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sørensen, Kristine ^a   Van Den Broucke, Stephan ^b   Fullam, James ^c   Doyle, Gerardine ^c   Pelikan, Jürgen ^d   Slonska, Zofia ^e   Brand, Helmut ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^e INSTITUTE OF CARDIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT FORMATION; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CONCEPT FORMATION; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84857911427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-80     Document Type: Review

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