Health Literacy: An Effective Component to Overcome Perceived Barriers to Adoption of Preventive Behaviors in the Health Belief Model

Rahman Panahi ¹ , Gholamreza Ebrahimi ², Seyede Somayeh Kazemi ³, Mahmoud Tavousi ⁴ *

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