Level of health literacy in Latvia and Lithuania: a population-based study

Abstract Background Measuring and understanding the level of health literacy serves as a starting point for developing various policies in health care. The consequences of weak health literacy competencies are severe; they result in riskier health behaviour, poorer health status, more frequent emerg...

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Main Authors: Ieva Gatulytė, Valērija Verdiņa, Zane Vārpiņa, Ágnes Lublóy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-07-01
Series:Archives of Public Health
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-022-00886-3