Win Myint Oo|Pa Pa Soe|Kay Thi Lwin
Status and determinants of health literacy: a study among adult population in selected areas of Myanmar
University Of Medicine 1 Yangon|University Of Medicine 1 Yangon|University Of Medicine 1 Yangon
background health literacy means cognitive social skills individual determine ability access understand use health information order promote maintain good health health literacy important health also socioeconomic development limited health literacy increases health care cost objective determine status determinants health literacy association health literacy healthrisk behaviours among myanmar populationmethodsa crosssectional study conducted among 1367 adults multistage random sampling applied data entry analysis done using stata 110 statistical packageresults prevalence satisfactory intermediate poor health literacy 315 95 ci 291 341 403 95 ci 377 430 282 95 ci 258 306 respectively age sex marital status education sufficiency expenditure watching medicalrelated tv series accessibility education amp health education courses ability pay medication affordability see medical doctors detected significant determinants health literacy health literacy also significantly related healthrisk behaviors smoking betel chewing taking regular exercise marginal association health literacy alcohol drinking p 0064conclusionsthe present study encourages efforts improve health literacy myanmar adults enhancing health education health promotion activities also important improve socioeconomic status