Health literacy: Towards system level solutions

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 350, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Greenhalgh, Trisha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SELF CARE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS;

EID: 84924104313     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h1026     Document Type: Editorial

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