Health literacy in a community with low levels of education: findings from Chakaria, a rural area of Bangladesh

• Main Authors: Susmita Das (Author), Mohammad Nahid Mia (Author), Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi (Author), Shahidul Hoque (Author), Abbas Bhuiya (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Health literacy (HL) helps individuals to make effective use of available health services. In low-income countries such as Bangladesh, the less than optimum use of services could be due to low levels of HL. Bangladesh's health service delivery is pluralistic with a mix of pu...