Health literacy and its effect on chronic disease prevention: evidence from China's data.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Improving health literacy is an important public health goal in many countries. Although many studies have suggested that low health literacy has adverse effects on an individual's health outcomes, confounding factors are often not accounted. This paper examines the interplay between health literacy and chronic disease prevention. METHODS:A population-based sample of 8194 participants aged 15-69 years old in Ningbo were used from China's 2017 National Health Literacy Surveillance Data. We use multivariate regression analysis to disentangle the relationship between health literacy and chronic disease prevention. RESULTS:We find the association between health literacy and the occurrence of the first chronic condition is attenuated after we adjust the results for age and education.

SUBMITTER: Liu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7227325 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature