TY - JOUR AU - Svendsen, Majbritt Tang AU - Bak, Carsten Kronborg AU - Sørensen, Kristine AU - Pelikan, Jürgen AU - Riddersholm, Signe Juul AU - Skals, Regitze Kuhr AU - Mortensen, Rikke Nørmark AU - Maindal, Helle Terkildsen AU - Bøggild, Henrik AU - Nielsen, Gitte AU - Torp-Pedersen, Christian PY - 2020 DA - 2020/04/28 TI - Associations of health literacy with socioeconomic position, health risk behavior, and health status: a large national population-based survey among Danish adults JO - BMC Public Health SP - 565 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - Health literacy concerns the ability of citizens to meet the complex demands of health in modern society. Data on the distribution of health literacy in general populations and how health literacy impacts health behavior and general health remains scarce. The present study aims to investigate the prevalence of health literacy levels and associations of health literacy with socioeconomic position, health risk behavior, and health status at a population level. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08498-8 DO - 10.1186/s12889-020-08498-8 ID - Svendsen2020 ER -