The Swiss Health Literacy Survey: development and psychometric properties of a multidimensional instrument to assess competencies for health.
Background Growing recognition of the role of citizens and patients in health and health care has placed a spotlight on health literacy and patient education. Objective To identify specific competencies for health in definitions of health literacy and patient-centred concepts and empirically test th...
| Publicado en: | Health Expectations Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 396 - 418 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2014
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