Measuring General Health Literacy in Chinese adults: validation of the HLS19-Q12 instrument

• Main Authors: Rongmei Liu (Author), Qiuping Zhao (Author), Mingyang Yu (Author), Hui Chen (Author), Xiaomo Yang (Author), Shuaibin Liu (Author), Orkan Okan (Author), Xinghan Chen (Author), Yuhan Xing (Author), Shuaijun Guo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Health literacy measurement lays a solid foundation to identify associations with health outcomes and monitor population health literacy levels over time. In mainland China, most existing health literacy instruments are either knowledge-based or practice-based, making health lite...