Building Health-Literate Societies

The Knowledgeable Patient: Communication and Participation in Health

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 184-195

  Hill, Sophie ^a   Lowe, Dianne B ^a   Liu, Chaojie ^a   Santesso, Nancy ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Australian National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission; China; Consumers; Effective Consumer Scale; Health information; Health literacy; Measurement tool; OMERACT

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886823803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444346855.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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