National indicators of health literacy: Ability to understand health information and to engage actively with healthcare providers - A populationbased survey among Danish adults

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bo, Anne ^a   Friis, Karina ^b   Osborne, Richard H ^c   Maindal, Helle Terkildsen ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Public Health and Quality Improvement   (Denmark)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Doctor patient relations; Health competence; Health information; Health literacy; Health literacy questionnaire (HLQ); Inequality in health; Patient participation; Patient centred care; Population survey; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENMARK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84964315787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1095     Document Type: Review

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