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Development and validation of a measure of health literacy in the UK: the newest vital sign

BACKGROUND: Health literacy (HL) is an important public health issue. Current measures have drawbacks in length and/or acceptability. The US-developed Newest Vital Sign (NVS) health literacy instrument measures both reading comprehension and numeracy skills using a nutrition label, takes 3 minutes t...

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Autores principales: Rowlands, Gill, Khazaezadeh, Nina, Oteng-Ntim, Eugene, Seed, Paul, Barr, Suzanne, Weiss, Barry D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3681579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23391329
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-116