Health Literacy, Health Information Seeking Behaviors and Internet Use Among Patients Attending a Private and Public Clinic in the Same Geographic Area.
Despite the growing body of health information available online, patients with limited health literacy may lack either internet access or skills necessary to utilize this information. Nonetheless, patients at all health literacy levels may prefer other primary sources to obtain health information. W...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Community Health Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 83 - 90 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2014
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