The level of health literacy of residents is an important indicator of comprehensiveness that reflects the level of regional health.Health literacy refers to personal acquisition and understanding of basic health information and services, and uses this information and services to make correct decisions to maintain and promote its own health.
According to the results of the health literacy monitoring of the province’s residents carried out by the Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the health quality level in Zhejiang Province in 2023 was 41.54%, an increase of 3.18%over the previous year.
As far as the three dimensions of health literacy are concerned
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The proportion of basic health knowledge and concept is 53.65%
Healthy lifestyle and behavioral ratio is 42.00%
Basic health skills literacy ratio is 35.48%
Specific health literacy includes
Six types of health problems literacy
From high to low
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Safety and emergency literacy 71.57%
Scientific health observation 65.72%
Health information literacy 50.05%
Chronic disease prevention and treatment literacy 44.53%
Basic medical literacy 34.57%
Infectious disease prevention and treatment literacy 32.85%
The province’s unified survey methods, unified quality control, and unified analysis and calculations ultimately form a health quality level in Zhejiang Province and 11 cities.
At present, the level of health literacy in Zhejiang Province has the following three characteristics:
The overall level is high
However, the gap between different ages is large, and the health literacy level of people 15-40 years has reached more than 50%, but the health quality level of the elderly is low, and those 65-69 years old are still less than 10%.
The three dimensions of health literacy differences are large
Among them, the level of “basic health skills” is the lowest.
In the level of six types of health problems, “infectious disease prevention literacy” and “basic medical literacy” are the weaker
In recent years, Zhejiang Province has constructed healthy Zhejiang at a high level, fully implemented 26 actions in Health Zhejiang, vigorously promoted the popularization of health knowledge, and strives to promote the modernization of health and health.The overall presence continues to improve, but it also reflects some shortcomings and weaknesses.In the next step, the health department will be based on a good job in the past:
Further build a large health working mechanism for government to attach great importance to, departmental cooperation, extensive participation of the whole society, and sharing the whole people;
Further comprehensively promote the popularization of health knowledge, promote the promotion of national health literacy, and actively create a healthy and popular rural cultural hall and “Zheli Health” popular science brand activities;
Further focus on work shortcomings and weak links, accelerate the promotion of health cell construction projects, health science popularization capacity building projects, and life protection construction projects;
Further vigorously advocate a healthy lifestyle, deepen the concept of “everyone is the first responsible person of their own health”, and continuously improve the health quality level of residents in the province.
