The impact of health literacy and socioeconomic status on asthma disparities.

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Published in J Asthma on January 25, 2012

Authors

Laura M Curtis1, Michael S Wolf, Kevin B Weiss, Leslie C Grammer

Author Affiliations

1: Health Literacy and Learning Program, Division of General Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. l-curtis@northwestern.edu

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