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Health Literacy Among Rural Communities: Issues of Accessibility to Information and Media Literacy
2020
Jurnal Komunikasi Malaysian Journal of Communication
Health literacy is a very important concept linked to the wellbeing of a nation. A healthy nation is a progressive nation when they can make informed decisions about their health. The concept means one's cognitive and social ability to gain access, to understand and use health information to make wise decisions to maintain and promote good health on oneself (Nutbeam, 1998) . The level of health literacy among rural population in Malaysia is found to be 2.3 percent, lower than urban population
doi:10.17576/jkmjc-2020-3601-14
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