Health literacy and knowledge of antenatal care among pregnant women.
Health literacy has a direct impact on pregnancy from the perspectives of both the mother and the baby. This study aimed to determine the level of health literacy and assess the knowledge of antenatal care among pregnant women. From among all pregnant women who presented to the hospital's obstetric...
| Publicado en: | Health & Social Care in the Community Vol. 29; no. 6; pp. 1815 - 1824 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2021
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