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Health literacy among refugees in Sweden – a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Refugees have poorer health compared to indigenous populations, which may be explained by lower health literacy, i.e. not being able to access, understand, appraise or apply health information. This study aims to determine levels of functional and comprehensive health literacy, and facto...

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Autores principales:	Wångdahl, Josefin, Lytsy, Per, Mårtensson, Lena, Westerling, Ragnar
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2014
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4195944/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25278109 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1030

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