Citation: Gülay Yilmazel, Fevziye Çetinkaya. Relation between Health Literacy Levels, Hypertension Awareness and Control among Primary-secondary School Teachers in Turkey[J]. AIMS Public Health, 2017, 4(4): 314-325. doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2017.4.314
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