Health literacy in Beijing: An assessment of adults' knowledge and skills regarding communicable diseases

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Daitao ^a   Wu, Shuangsheng ^a   Zhang, Yi ^a   Yang, Peng ^a   MacIntyre, C Raina ^b   Seale, Holly ^b   Wang, Quanyi ^a  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; BEIJING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84939427404     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2151-1     Document Type: Article

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