Health Literacy Status Of Residents Of Qiandeng Town Of Kunshan City

Objective:In order to understand the residents’ ability to get health knowledge, information,services, and grasp of the health life style, skill level is associated with health literacy,such as the ability to obtain; To explore the influencing factors of health literacy,seeking health service model with the social development.According to the unified requirements of the Ministry of Health and in accordance with the unified arrangement of Kunshan City, Qian Deng Town carry out the residents’ health literacy survey in 2014 within their respective jurisdictions, this report is the health literacy survey results.Methods:The survey respondents to 15 ~ 69 years old resident population of Qian Deng Town. With multistage stratified cluster random sampling method, choose sampling areas and residents, household surveys by trained investigators, data was put into Epidata3.02 database in double entry way, using SPSS19.0 data statistical analysis.Recycling effective questionnaire 403, effective rate was 99.85%. According to the corresponding health literacy knowledge score of respondents, 80% or more of the standard of health literacy level was judged as having the health literacy.Results:Qian Deng town of Kunshan City residents’ health literacy overall level of 25.6%,slightly better than 24.8% in 2013, more than 21.1% of the overall level of Jiangsu province. Have the basic knowledge and concept, healthy lifestyle and behavior literacy skills, health literacy, in turn, the proportion of 23.8%, 34.5%, 26.3%. Literacy overall,age group, aged 25 to residents’ health literacy level is highest, young and middle-aged literacy levels higher than the elderly; From the point of cultural degree,college/university one of the highest literacy, 48.6%; Medical staff health literacy levelwas the highest in the different profession, was 66.7%, and the workers, farmers,literacy level is relatively low.According to the main health problems classified, the result shows: the Qian Deng Town’s seven classes of health literacy rate from high to low are: security and emergency literacy 56.1%, scientific medical literacy 52.9%, health information acquisition 30.3%, infectious disease prevention literacy 29.5%, science literacy23.6%, 17.1%of chronic disease prevention literacy and 5% of basic medical health literacy.After analysis the health literacy monitoring results,found that:(1) middle-aged and old people’s health literacy level is low;(2) people health literacy level rises along with the cultural degree;(3) there was no statistically significant difference of health literacy level between different gender;(4) all kinds of medical workers, civil servants and teachers level is relatively good, workers and farmers’ literacy level is low;(5) a healthy lifestyle and behavior literacy lags behind the basic knowledge and concept and health literacy, but compared with 2012 results improved;(6) of various types of health problems in the basic medical quality lowest levels;(7) thousand lamp town kunshan city residents’ health literacy among all age groups and present highly negative correlation between mortality;(8) of various types of health problems in the basic medical quality had the lowest levels, chronic disease prevention literacy improved compared with 2013;(9) the tobacco epidemic situation a little progress, tobacco control efforts still need to be further strengthened.Conclusion:(1) to promote health education and health promotion, improve the health literacy level;(2) for key people and key diseases, the general health education combined with the high risk population health education, targeted to carry out health education and health promotion;(3) the regular monitoring of health literacy, timely publish monitoring results;(4) the health literacy index into the comprehensive evaluation index system of economic and social development;(5) continue to strengthen health education team construction and improve the ability of professional personnel to carry out the field work;(6) to increase spending and policy support, security work continued.