Identifying Health Literacy in Kansas Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
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C l i n M e d International Library Citation: Chesser AK, Melhado TV, Hines RB, Woods NK (2016) Identifying Health Literacy in Kansas Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). J Fam Med Dis Prev 2:032 Received: April 27, 2016: Accepted: May 30, 2016: Published: June 2, 2016 Copyright: © 2016 Chesser AK, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Chesser et al. J Fam Med Dis Prev 2016, 2:032
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