In search of ‘low health literacy’: Threshold vs. gradient effect of literacy on health status and mortality
- 12 February 2010
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Social Science & Medicine
- Vol. 70 (9) , 1335-1341
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.12.013
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