Health Literacy and Knowledge of Chronic Diseases in Nepal

• Main Authors: Abha Shrestha (Author), Suman Bahadur Singh (Author), Vijay Kumar Khanal (Author), Sailesh Bhattarai (Author), Robin Maskey (Author), Paras Kumar Pokharel (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SLACK Incorporated, 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...