A mismatch between population health literacy and the complexity of health information: an observational study | British Journal of General Practice

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vol. 65 no. 635 e379-e386

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https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp15X685285

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Royal College of General Practitioners

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Received July 31, 2014
Revision requested October 7, 2014
Accepted November 11, 2014
Published online May 25, 2015.

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Gillian Rowlands, FRCGP, FRCP, MD, Professor

Institute of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark and Institute for Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.

Joanne Protheroe, MRes, PhD, FRCGP, Senior lecturer in general practice

Research Institute for Primary Health Care & Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, UK.

John Winkley, BSc, MEng, FCIEA, Director

AlphaPlus Consultancy Ltd, Manchester, UK.

Marty Richardson, BSc, MSc, Statistician

Liverpool Reviews and Implementation Group, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

Paul T Seed, BSc, MSc, CStat, Senior lecturer in medical statistics

Division of Women’s Health, King’s College London, London, UK.

Rima Rudd, BA, MSPH, ScD, Senior lecturer on health literacy, education, and policy

Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston, MA, US.

Address for correspondence
Gillian Rowlands, Institute of Health and Society, Baddiley-Clark Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE2 4AX, UK. E-mail: Gill.Rowlands{at}newcastle.ac.uk

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