• Title of article

    Health Literacy and Aging

  • Author/Authors

    Bahrevar ، Vali Department of Health Education Health Promotion - School of Public Health - Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences , Hazar ، Narjes Health Monitoring Research Center, School of Medicine - Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences , Hosseini ، Saeed Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology - Center for Healthcare Data Modeling, School of Public Health - Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences

  • From page
    56
  • To page
    57
  • Abstract
    letter to editor: The reduction in health literacy with aging is considered a critical challenge and an imposed risk in health care systems. The contagion of chronic diseases, rate of visiting doctors, hospitalization and death in health-illiterate people are higher, and these people are charged with higher medical costs in general.
  • Keywords
    no keywords.
  • Journal title
    Elderly Health Journal
  • Journal title
    Elderly Health Journal
  • Record number

    2691286