Investigation About The Residents′health Literacy In Chongqing City

Objective: In order to know the present situation and distribution characteristics about health knowledge and attitude, health lifestyle and behavior and healthy skills, this article conduct an investigation from these three respects to analyze their respective factors. We establish the civic information database based on health literacy through collection of relevant indicators of health literacy data, comprehensive assessment of the level of health literacy about both individual and group, factors analysis of the residents′health literacy level to provide reference frame for carrying out monitoring of health literacy, formulating health promotion and health education strategies or standards.Methods: We use the stratified, multistage, random-sampling RMB design to draw samples, with the questionnaires provided by the《Chinese Citizens'Healthy Literacy-Basic Knowledge and Skills》.Also we use the form of home interview to investigate health knowledge and attitude, health lifestyle and behavior and health skills of our residents through which we can gather the related data of health literacy. Through descriptive analysis about the health knowledge and behavior, and we use Wilcoxon rank sum test, K-W test and MLR to analyze the factors which affect residents′health knowledge, behavior and skills. We use RSR comprehensive evaluation to give a comprehensive evaluation about the residents'health literacy and analyze the effect factors.Result: Chongqing residents display a good overall knowledge of the situation in health knowledge, health life style and behavior and health skills. But in certain special questions, it's unoptimistic. The city residents have a better performance than the countryside residents in rating aspects and who have a better education or higher family average month incomes can get a high score. What is different, in the health knowledge aspect, masculine grading slightly is lower than the female, but in the health life style and behavior aspect, the female surpasses the male. The gender does not have influence on health skills grading. Looking from the age distribution, besides having no effect on the life style and behavior grading, the knowledge and skills display a declining trend with the age growth. After comprehensive evaluation, we can find that residents whose health literacy is in the medium level are the most, occupied the total number of people 45.13%.The age, education and average month income are the positive factor while the region are the negative factors. In the impact, the big to small in descending order are education, region, the average monthly income and age.Conclusion: We need pay more attention to health education and health promotion, create a health support environment to improve the residents′health literacy level because the residents don't know the health knowledge very well, have a reasonable health lifestyle and behavior and not very good health skills. As the education,age and income have a significant influence on the health literacy level, we need a targeted health education to improve the level of vulnerable groups. As the city people have a higher level than the countryside resident, health education should focus on rural areas.