A short assessment of health literacy (SAHL) in the Netherlands

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Pander Maat, Henk ^a   Essink Bot, Marie Louise ^b   Leenaars, Karlijn Ef ^c   Fransen, Mirjam P ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Health literacy; Reading comprehension; Testing; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908015051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-990     Document Type: Article

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