Health Literacy and Knowledge of Chronic Diseases in Nepal

• Главные авторы: Abha Shrestha (Автор), Suman Bahadur Singh (Автор), Vijay Kumar Khanal (Автор), Sailesh Bhattarai (Автор), Robin Maskey (Автор), Paras Kumar Pokharel (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: SLACK Incorporated, 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: Understanding of risk factors and developing healthy lifestyles is a way of tackling the surging burden of chronic diseases in low-to-middle income countries such as Nepal. Health literacy (HL) has a pivotal role in prevention, adherence to treatment, self-care, and better use of health...