Investigation of residents' health literacy status and its risk factors in Jiangsu Province of China.
Asia Pac J Public Health
; 27(2): NP2764-72, 2015 Mar.
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ABSTRACT
Health literacy has become an important public health concern. Multistage cluster random sampling was used to select 12 450 individuals. Using the 2009 Chinese Health Literacy questionnaire, participants were divided into groups with poor or not poor health literacy status. The knowledge rates for 6 areas of health literacy were determined with the following results:
science concept of health (60.0%), literacy for preventing acute infectious disease (66.8%), literacy for preventing noncommunicable chronic disease (51.9%), safety and first aid (66.8%), obtaining and making use of basic medical care (55.3%), and comprehensive health literacy (52.5%). Multiple logistic regression showed that living in a rural area, fewer individuals in a household, younger age, low education, agricultural or rural migrant occupation workers, and low family income were associated with a poor health literacy status. Our results support the use of health education and promotion interventions to improve health literacy in this high-risk population in China.Palavras-chave
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Letramento em Saúde
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Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Asia Pac J Public Health
Assunto da revista:
SAUDE PUBLICA
Ano de publicação:
2015
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Article
País de afiliação:
China