Thomas Muecke, Stephen Bacchi, Robert Casson, Weng Onn Chan
Building the workforce of tomorrow: The weighting of rural exposure in standardised curriculum vitae scoring criteria for entrance into Australian specialty training programs
The Australian journal of rural health
health literacy may constitute modifiable determinant smoking behavior intention quit little known extent health literacy affects smoking quitting smoking assessed nationally representative crosssectional datasets china health literacy surveillance chls initiated 2018 using polytomous logistic regression models study investigated association health literacy smoking behavior intention quit smoking among men aged 1569 china confounding factors controlled compared basic health literacy adequate health literacy appeared independent protective factor current smoking current smoking vs never smoking adjusted odds ratio 088 95 confidence interval ci 081096 p 0003 current smoking vs former smoking adjusted 077 95 ci 064092 p 0003 intermediate health literacy associated current smoking vs never smoking adjusted 109 95 ci 102117 p 0011 former smoking vs never smoking adjusted 122 95 ci 106140 p 0005 adequate health literacy associated intending quit among current smokers adjusted 125 95 ci 110142 p 0001 findings provide evidence health literacy may serve critical independent protective factor reducing poor smoking behavior enhancing cessation intention among men efforts focus developing evaluating intervention control tobacco use among men low health literacy level