Determinants of health literacy in the general population: results of the Catalan health survey

• Main Authors: Oriol Garcia-Codina (Author), Dolors Juvinyà-Canal (Author), Paloma Amil-Bujan (Author), Carmen Bertran-Noguer (Author), María Asunción González-Mestre (Author), Eulàlia Masachs-Fatjo (Author), Sebastià J. Santaeugènia (Author), Pilar Magrinyà-Rull (Author), Esteve Saltó-Cerezuela (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Health Literacy (HL) is the knowledge and competence to access, understand, appraise, and apply health information for health judgment. We analyze for the first time HL level of Catalonia's population. Our objective was to assess HL of population in our area and to identify...