A need for health literacy curriculum: Knowledge of health literacy among US audiologists and speech-language pathologists in Arkansas

Education for Health: Change in Learning and Practice

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 85-88

  Atcherson, Samuel R ^a   Zraick, Richard I ^a   Hadden, Kristie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiologists; Communication; Health literacy; Knowledge; Provider; Speech pathologists

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; SPEECH DISORDER; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ARKANSAS; AUDIOLOGY; CURRICULUM; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY; STUDENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886793830     PISSN: 13576283     EISSN: 14695804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1357-6283.120699     Document Type: Article

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