Our city starts residents' health literacy monitoring

The reporter learned from the Municipal Centers for Disease Control yesterday that the annual residents' health literacy monitoring of our city has been officially launched. The Municipal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that at that time, the staff will conduct an investigation certificate and a tablet to conduct a questionnaire survey, hoping to actively cooperate with the drawn residents.

According to reports, health literacy is an important decisive factor in health and plays an important role in the continuous and stable development of economic and social. By analyzing the results of the survey, relevant departments can master the level of health literacy, change trends, and the health literacy levels of different ages and regions in order to provide targeted health services, carry out health education and health promotion actions, guide residents Develop a healthy lifestyle, master basic health skills, and then improve the level of health literacy.

This year, the city has identified 6 monitoring points, namely canal District, Xinhua District, Hejian City, Botou City, Wuqiao County, and Yanshan County. The relevant departments will extract the community (village) from it, and use random sampling methods to extract the family. Each household randomly extracts a resident resident of urban and rural residents aged 15 to 69 as the survey object. The city will complete 1800 questionnaires.

Monitoring content mainly includes basic health knowledge and concepts, health lifestyle and behavior, basic skills, etc., covering six aspects: scientific health, infectious disease prevention literacy, chronic disease prevention and treatment literacy, safety and emergency literacy, basic medical literacy and health information literacy. It also contains tobacco use.

(Reporter Pang Wei's double correspondent Gao Jing)

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