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## Background: The Chinese government uses health literacy as an evaluation to estimate population health status in national strategic planning. A health literacy survey system for the city of Beijing, China was established in 2012 with triennial surveys to obtain representative data for the whole city. ## Objective: The objective of this study was to examine results of the 2015 Beijing Health Literacy Survey and to identify population subgroups that may warrant intervention due to high risk for not having adequate health literacy. ## Methods: This was a cross-sectional study in which participants were selected by multistage stratified cluster sampling. The information was collected in 2015 in face-to-face interviews on the Chinese Citizen Health Literacy Questionnaire. A total of 12,876 interviews were included in the final analyses. Weighting was conducted in all statistical analyses to obtain representative estimates, and multiple logistic regression was applied to examine the independent influencing factors on health literacy level (adequate/inadequate). ## Key Results: Overall, 28% of participants had adequate health literacy. Urban residents had a higher proportion of partici

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Author

Jianhui Shi; Li Qi; Yuqing Li; Xiurong Liu

Publisher

SLACK, Inc.

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Health Sciences)