Readability, suitability and health content assessment of cancer screening announcements in municipal newspapers in Japan

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 6719-6727

  Okuhara, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ishikawa, Hirono ^a   Okada, Hiroko ^b   Kiuchi, Takahiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Patient education material; Readability assessment in material; Tokyo newspapers

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPREHENSION; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MOTIVATION; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PUBLICATION; SELF CONCEPT; STANDARDS;

COMPREHENSION; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; NEOPLASMS; NEWSPAPERS AS TOPIC; SELF EFFICACY; TOKYO;

EID: 84944463750     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2015.16.15.6719     Document Type: Article

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