| Objective:In order to understand our city residents’health literacy leve,it provides direction to health decisions and health education&health promotion. It enhances the residents’ health literacy level on purpose.It will promote health and improve the quality of life, so as to contribute to the victory of modernization.Methods:According to the uniform requirements of provinces and cities, random cluster sampling method was used in this survey, the survey covered11area of city and country sides.Each district town random one or two site.this survey had a total of16site(Yu-shan,the development zones and Zhou shi were as3city-monitoring points;Ba cheng,Zhan gpu and Qian deng were as3country-monitoring points; those represented Kun-shan as Su zhou municipal survey of monitoring site in urban and rural areas.3126questionnaires survey was recovery, the effective questionnaire was3086, the effective rate was98.72%. Respondents is15～69years old resident population.The content includes basic situation and health literacy residents content in two parts.We used Epidate3.0software to input the survey data with double times check.We used spss18.0software to analysis.Results:The general level (21.7%) of Kun-shan residents’health literacy is not only higher than national average level (6.8%) of first national residents health literacy survey (2008),but also higher than general level (9.55%) in Jiang-su province and Su-zhou health literacy level(15.3%) in2009.In three respects, those respondents who had the basic knowledge and ideas, healthy life style and behavior literacy, basic skills literacy reached29.4%,11.8%and84.6%in the total ratio.General health literacy and three aspects health literacy all showed the following characters:(I)Male was higher than female in proportion to health literacy;(2)People’s health literacy level below the age of45was higher than others above45years old;(3)Those respondents who accepted the higher level education had the higher health literacy leve;(4)Health literacy level has professional difference, social disadvantaged groups health literacy level was relatively low;(5)Those who earn less than500yuan per month had extremely low literacy level;(6)Those engaged in medical and health work was far higher than those of other employees;(7)Those people who married were higher than unmarried and other people.Our city residents had the relevant health literacy ratio from high to low respectively:basic medical literacy:72.2%, scientific health concept:31.0%, safety and health science emergency:35.2%, epidemic prevention:14.3%, chronic disease prevention literacy:5.9%.Through the analysis of the overall evaluation of75content answer, the correct answer rates of five index was lower than30%in the investigation.The index respectively is:"How long children should not be more than for reading and writing"(24.1%);"Which kind of form they promoted the use of harmless sanitation toilets in the village "(23.6%);"Adult women drinking wine a day of the amount of alcohol"(12.1%);"how many minutes remove pesticide residue and pollutants, vegetable fruit after cleaning with water at least"(24.4%);"What are the effective measures to control hypertension"(28.2%).Conclusions:(1) The overall level of our city residents’health literacy had reached21.7%in the survey results.Although it was higher than the national average level in2008and the provinces average level in2009, but the absolute value was not high, it compared with this city economic development level was relatively backward.The higher health literacy laborer is the fundamental to keep stable and rapid development of social economy, is the powerful guarantee to ensure that our city can take the lead in accomplishing modernization.(2) The monitoring results found that low-income people, low culture level people and social disadvantaged groups had low proportion of health literacy.Accordingly, we should be especially to target the goal crowd, and then formulate the scientific and feasible effective new method and new strategy of health education and health promotion. |
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