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Health numeracy in Japan: measures of basic numeracy account for framing bias in a highly numerate population

BACKGROUND: Health numeracy is an important factor in how well people make decisions based on medical risk information. However, in many countries, including Japan, numeracy studies have been limited. METHODS: To fill this gap, we evaluated health numeracy levels in a sample of Japanese adults by tr...

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Autores principales: Okamoto, Masako, Kyutoku, Yasushi, Sawada, Manabu, Clowney, Lester, Watanabe, Eiju, Dan, Ippeita, Kawamoto, Keiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3511058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22967200
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-12-104