Health numeracy: The importance of domain in assessing numeracy

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 107-115

  Levy, Helen ^a   Ubel, Peter A ^b   Dillard, Amanda J ^c   Weir, David R ^a   Fagerlin, Angela ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VA Ann Arbor Center for Clinical Management Research   (United States)

Author keywords

cognition; health literacy; health numeracy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH NUMERACY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COGNITION; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH NUMERACY;

AGED; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF EFFICACY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84890630368     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X13493144     Document Type: Article

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