Health literacy in patients with chronic hepatitis B attending a tertiary hospital in Melbourne: A questionnaire based survey

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dahl, Tanya F M ^a,b   Cowie, Benjamin C ^a,b,c   Biggs, Beverley Ann ^a,b   Leder, Karin ^a,d   MacLachlan, Jennifer H ^b,c   Marshall, Caroline ^a,b  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chronic hepatitis B; Health literacy; Immigrant health; Management; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CHRONIC HEPATITIS B; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT INFORMATION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; AGED; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TRANSMISSION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84964314730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-537     Document Type: Article

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