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Comprehensive health literacy in Japan is lower than in Europe: a validated Japanese-language assessment of health literacy

BACKGROUND: Health literacy, or the ability to access, understand, appraise and apply health information, is central to individuals’ health and well-being. A comprehensive, concept-based measure of most dimensions of health literacy has been developed for the general population in Europe, which enab...

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Autores principales: Nakayama, Kazuhiro, Osaka, Wakako, Togari, Taisuke, Ishikawa, Hirono, Yonekura, Yuki, Sekido, Ai, Matsumoto, Masayoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4491868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26001385
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1835-x