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Level of health literacy and factors associated with it among school teachers in an education zone in Colombo, Sri Lanka

BACKGROUND: Health literacy refers to people's competencies to access, understand, judge and apply health information in healthcare, disease prevention and health promotion. This study aimed to describe the level of health literacy and the factors associated with it among school teachers in an...

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Autores principales:	Denuwara, H. M. B. H., Gunawardena, Nalika Sepali
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2017
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5500949/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28683824 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4543-x

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