The Many Health Literacies: Advancing Research or Fragmentation?

Health Communication

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1161-1165

  Mackert, Michael ^a,b,c   Champlin, Sara ^a   Su, Zhaohui ^a   Guadagno, Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOMENCLATURE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT;

HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; RESEARCH; SELF EFFICACY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84941773856     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2015.1037422     Document Type: Article

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