Short assessment of health literacy for portuguese-speaking adults

Revista de Saude Publica

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 702-711

  Apolinario, Daniel ^a   Braga, Rafaela de Castro Oliveira Pereira ^a   Magaldi, Regina Miksian ^a   Busse, Alexandre Leopold ^a   Campora, Flavia ^a   Bruc, KiSonia ^a   Lees, Shoou Yih Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Health education; Health literacy; Questionnaires; SAHLPA; Translations; Validation studies

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; TRANSLATING;

EID: 84870916484     PISSN: 00348910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0034-89102012005000047     Document Type: Article

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