Maternal schooling and comprehension of child health information in urban Zambia: is literacy a missing link in the maternal schooling-child health relationship?
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This paper examines the relationship between literacy skills and comprehension of health information by studying mothers of young children in a high-density urban area in Zambia. Both decontextualized language and print literacy skills were assessed for each woman and the resulting scores were related to her comprehension of both broadcast and printed health information. The results indicate that fluency in a language is not sufficient for full comprehension of broadcast messages in the...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 1997 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/41264 http://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/41264 |
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