Hao Yu|Shutao Sun|Jie Liu|Haixiao Chen|Guilin Liu
Influence of health literacy on health outcomes of different social strata—— an empirical study based on the data of China's health literacy investigation
First Hospital of Jiaxing|Wenzhou Medical University|First Hospital of Jiaxing|Wenzhou Medical University|Wenzhou Medical University
health literacy always considered important factor promote peoples health significant effect health across social strata especially lower social strata study aims analyze influences health literacy health outcomes different social strata infer whether improving health literacy reduce health disparities among different social stratautilizing health literacy monitoring data city zhejiang province 2020 samples divided three social strata according socioeconomic status score low middle high social stratum compare whether significant differences health outcomes population lower higher health literacy among different social strata strata significant differences control confounding factors verify influence health literacy health outcomesin low middle social strata significant differences population lower higher health literacy considering two types health outcomes chronic diseases selfrated health high social stratum difference significant controlling relevant variables influence health literacy prevalence chronic diseases statistically significant low social stratum health literacy negatively correlated prevalence chronic diseasesor 0722 p 0022 addition statistical significances positive impact health literacy selfrated health low middle social strata 1285 p 0047 1401 p 0023compared high social stratum influence health literacy health outcomes low social stratum chronic diseases middle low social strata selfrated health significant improve health outcomes finding suggests improving residents health literacy may effective way alleviate health disparities among different social strata