EVALUATION OF HEALTH LITERACY AMONG OUT PATIENTS VISITING A PRIVATE DENTAL INSTITUTION IN CHENNAI.
Keywords:
Education level, Health literacy, Outpatients, innovative mode, innovative analysisAbstract
BACKGROUND: Health literacy is found to be a strong predictor of an individual's healthbehaviour.World Health Organization considered health literacy as the important determinant factor topromote public health.
AIM: The aim of this study is to evaluate the health literacy among outpatients visiting a private dentalinstitution, and to examine the education level of the participants and health literacy level.
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D’Cruz AM, Aradhya MRS. Health literacy among Indian adults seeking dental care. Dent Res J. 2013;10(1):20-24. doi:10.4103/1735-3327.111760.
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2023-04-20
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AKSHETHA.L.S ,Dr. D.Sri Sakthi ,Dr. D.Sri Sakthi. (2023). EVALUATION OF HEALTH LITERACY AMONG OUT PATIENTS VISITING A PRIVATE DENTAL INSTITUTION IN CHENNAI . Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications (JoCAAA), 31(4), 2935–2941. Retrieved from https://www.eudoxuspress.com/index.php/pub/article/view/5518
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