Evaluating short versions of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q47) for health checkups
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Evaluation and Promotion
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1347-0086,1884-4103
DOI: 10.7143/jhep.2020-28