Measuring health literacy in populations: Illuminating the design and development process of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q)

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sørensen, Kristine ^a   Van Den Broucke, Stephan ^b   Pelikan, Jürgen M ^c   Fullam, James ^d   Doyle, Gerardine ^d   Slonska, Zofia ^e   Kondilis, Barbara ^f,g   Stoffels, Vivian ^a   Osborne, Richard H ^h   Brand, Helmut ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e INSTITUTE OF CARDIOLOGY   (Poland)

^f HELLENIC AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^g Hellenic American Educational Foundation   (Greece)

^h DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health literacy; Measurement; Population; Survey; Tool

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84885145700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-948     Document Type: Article

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