Improving health information to address low health literacy for patients with multimorbidity
Rebecca L. Jessup A D , Polina Putrik A B and Alison Beauchamp CA Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Cabrini Institute, 4 Drysdale Street, Malvern, Vic. 3144, Australia. Email: Polina.Putrik@monash.edu
B Health Systems Improvement Unit, a WHO Collaboration Centre for Health Literacy, School of Health and Social Development, Centre for Population Health Research, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Burwood, Vic. 3125, Australia.
C Department of Medicine – Western Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic. 3052, Australia. Email: alison.beauchamp@unimelb.edu.au
D Corrsponding author. Email: rebecca.jessup@monash.edu
Australian Health Review 43(4) 481-482 https://doi.org/10.1071/AH18116
Submitted: 28 May 2018 Accepted: 4 June 2018 Published: 25 September 2018
Abstract
A letter to the editor in response to the recently published article by Hill and Sofra (AHR, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 134–9) on improving health information.
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