A winning combination: women, literacy, and participation in health care.
Health information materials written at the appropriate reading level help individuals manage their own health care. In this study, we assessed the reading ability of clients and readability of the patient information materials at a rural women's health clinic. We administered a reading comprehensio...
| Publicado en: | Health Care for Women International Vol. 23; no. 6/7; pp. 754 - 761 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2002
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