Health literacy in Suriname

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 283-293

  Diemer, Frederieke S ^a,b   Haan, Yentl C ^b   Nannan Panday, Rani V ^b   van Montfrans, Gert A ^b   Oehlers, Glenn P ^a   Brewster, Lizzy M ^b,c,d  

^a ACADEMIC HOSPITAL PARAMARIBO   (Suriname)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c AMSTERDAM INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Netherlands)

^d ANTON DE KOM UNIVERSITY OF SURINAME   (Suriname)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; developing countries; ethnicity; health literacy; REALM; Suriname

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURINAME;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURINAME;

EID: 85014554762     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2016.1277823     Document Type: Article

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