Importance of adult literacy in understanding health disparities.

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Published in J Gen Intern Med on August 01, 2006

Authors

Tetine Lynn Sentell1, Helen Ann Halpin

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110 , USA. tetines@yahoo.com

Associated clinical trials:

Information Visualizations to Facilitate HIV-related Patient-provider Communication in New York City (Info Viz: HIV-NYC) | NCT04102540

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