Measuring health literacy in populations: illuminating the design and development process of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q)

Kristine Sørensen; Stephan Van den Broucke; Jürgen M Pelikan; James Fullam; Gerardine Doyle; Zofia Slonska; Barbara Kondilis; Vivian Stoffels; Richard H Osborne; Helmut Brand

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Measuring health literacy in populations: illuminating the design and development process of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q)

Kristine Sørensen

Stephan Van den Broucke

Jürgen M Pelikan James Fullam

Gerardine Doyle Zofia Slonska Barbara Kondilis Vivian Stoffels Richard H Osborne Helmut Brand

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Kristine Sørensen

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Stephan Van den Broucke

Health Systems Improvement Unit, School of Health and Social Development, Centre for Population Health Research, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia

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Helmut Brand

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Kristine Sørensen, Stephan Van den Broucke, Jürgen M Pelikan, et al. (2013). Measuring health literacy in populations: illuminating the design and development process of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q). BMC Public Health, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-948

Measuring health literacy in populations: illuminating the design and development process of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q)

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