Improving health literacy: how to succeed

Don Nutbeam

doi:10.1071/phrp3312301

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Improving health literacy: how to succeed

Don Nutbeam ^A ^*

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^A School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

^* Correspondence to: don.nutbeam@sydney.edu.au

Public Health Research and Practice 33, e3312301 https://doi.org/10.17061/phrp3312301

Published: 15 March 2023

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