title: [Health literacy survey among permanent resident in Daxing District of Beijing].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To understand status of health literacy and analyze its influencing factors among permanent residents in Daxing district of Beijing.
  
  
  METHODS
  Multistage stratified cluster random sampling method was used to recruit 807 permanent residents 18-79 years old. A questionnaire was used to collect information about normal social-demographic characters,the basic knowledge and concept literacy, healthy lifestyle and behavior literacy, and health skill literacy and so on.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The average awareness rate of health literacy was 71.1%. In the three aspects of health literacy, the residents' average awareness rates of the basic knowledge and concept literacy, healthy lifestyle and behavior literacy, and health skill literacy were 66.9%, 77.5% and 72.9%, respectively. Only 14.6% of the residents had adequate health literacy. The residents' average possession rate of the basic knowledge and concept literacy, healthy lifestyle and behavior literacy, and health skill literacy were 13.6%, 51.1% and 52.5%, respectively. Health literacy was significantly different among people with different education level, occupation and average monthly household income. Logistic regression analysis showed that the main factors that influenced health literacy were education level and age. Passing percentages were increased with education level and age.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The rate of the residents' health literacy was low. There is an urgent need to strengthen health education and promotion in the population and spread health literacy related knowledge, in order to improve their health literacy level.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China. andy767@163.com
authors.forename: Xiu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ao
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
authors.forename: Yadi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gan
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
authors.forename: Hongyu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002681:China; D002947:Cities; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D057220:Health Literacy; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population; D055815:Young Adult