Lifestyle disease prevention: Health literacy, health attitude and mHealth

Abstract Background: Improving health literacy is an important public health goal in many countries. Although many studies have suggested that low health literacy has adverse effects on an individual’s health outcomes, factors that may be confounding the relationship between health literacy and health outcomes are often not accounted. This paper examines the interplay between health literacy and chronic disease prevention.Methods: A sample of 2,835 residents aged 14-71 years old in Ningbo province of China were selected from China’s National Health Literacy Surveillance Survey in 2017. The multivariate regression analysis is used to untangle the relationship between health literacy and chronic disease prevention.Results: We find the association between health literacy and the occurrence of the first chronic condition is attenuated after we adjust the results for age and education. In contrast, we find having one or more chronic conditions leads to better knowledge about chronic diseases and thus improved health literacy on chronic disease prevention. Thus, when a respondent has one chronic disease, health literacy could reduce the incidence of a new chronic condition (comorbidities). However, the protective effect of health literacy is only found among our urban sample, suggesting health literacy might be a key factor explaining the rural-urban disparity in health outcomes.Conclusion: Our findings highlight that health literacy plays a more important role in helping individuals preventing comorbidity than preventing their first chronic disease. Moreover, family support could be a potential channel through which health literacy accumulates and results in beneficial effects on health.

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Health Literacy and its Effect on Chronic Disease Prevention: Evidences from China’s Data

10.21203/rs.3.rs-15607/v2 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Lefan Liu ◽

Xujun Qian ◽

Zhuo Chen ◽

Tianfeng He

Keyword(s):

Chronic Disease ◽

Health Literacy ◽

Disease Prevention ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Chronic Condition ◽

Multivariate Regression Analysis ◽

Population Based ◽

Chronic Disease Prevention ◽

Beneficial Effects ◽

Improve Health

Abstract Background Improving health literacy is an important public health goal in many countries. Although many studies have suggested that low health literacy has adverse effects on an individual’s health outcomes, confounding factors are often not accounted. This paper examines the interplay between health literacy and chronic disease prevention. Methodology A population-based sample of 8194 participants aged 15-69 years old in Ningbo were used from China’s 2017 National Health Literacy Surveillance Data. We use multivariate regression analysis to disentangle the relationship between health literacy and chronic disease occurrence. Results We find the association between health literacy and the occurrence of the first chronic condition is attenuated after we adjust the results for age and education. This might arise because having one or more chronic conditions is associated with better knowledge about chronic diseases and thus improve health literacy on chronic disease prevention. More importantly, we find health literacy is associated with a reduction in the occurrence of a new chronic condition. However, this protective effect is only found among urban residents, suggesting health literacy might be a key factor explaining the rural-urban disparity in health outcomes. Conclusion Our findings highlight the important role of health literacy in reducing occurrence of comorbidities rather than preventing the first chronic condition. Moreover, family support could help improve health literacy and result in beneficial effects on health.

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Comprehensive Health Literacy and Health-Related Behaviors Within a General Japanese Population: Differences by Health Domains

Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1177/1010539518806806 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 30 (8) ◽

pp. 717-726 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Eiko Goto ◽

Hirono Ishikawa ◽

Kazuhiro Nakayama ◽

Takahiro Kiuchi

Keyword(s):

Health Promotion ◽

Health Literacy ◽

Disease Prevention ◽

Exercise Behavior ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Health Related Behaviors ◽

Health Domains ◽

Comprehensive Health ◽

Prevention And Health Promotion ◽

Health Related

The present study aimed to explore how different health-related domains of health literacy, as measured by the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire, were associated with health-related behaviors among a general population in Japan. We conducted a cross-sectional observational study of 1002 Japanese residents. Our questionnaire addressed socioeconomic status, health status, health-related behaviors, and health literacy. Among the 3 health-related domains of health literacy (health care, disease prevention, and health promotion), a multivariate model revealed that the disease prevention domain was associated with exercise behavior and alcohol consumption. The health promotion domain was associated with dietary behavior and exercise behavior. There were strong correlations among all health-related domains of health literacy; however, there were different associations between health literacy and health-related behaviors depending on those domains. Additional research is needed to determine how and to what extent each domain of health literacy is related to what health behaviors and outcomes.

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Food Constituent Estimation for Lifestyle Disease Prevention by Multi-Task CNN

Applied Artificial Intelligence ◽

10.1080/08839514.2019.1602318 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 33 (8) ◽

pp. 732-746 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sulfayanti F. Situju ◽

Hironori Takimoto ◽

Suzuka Sato ◽

Hitoshi Yamauchi ◽

Akihiro Kanagawa ◽

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Keyword(s):

Disease Prevention ◽

Food Constituent ◽

Lifestyle Disease

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Situating Boundary Work: Chronic Disease Prevention in Danish Hospitals

Professions and Professionalism ◽

10.7577/pp.3362 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Inge Kryger Pedersen

Keyword(s):

Disease Prevention ◽

Preventive Measures ◽

Boundary Work ◽

Noncommunicable Diseases ◽

Professional Groups ◽

Professional Boundary ◽

Lifestyle Disease ◽

Lifestyle Related Diseases ◽

Depth Interviews

Noncommunicable diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, are the leading cause of death globally. This paper focuses on the boundary work among health professions involved in lifestyle-related preventive measures at Danish hospitals. Drawing on documents, qualitative in-depth interviews and extended conversations conducted with health professionals about goals, dilemmas, and practices related to lifestyle disease prevention, as well as site visits at Danish hospitals, it is identified which professional groups have claimed responsibility for the tasks, how they are defined, and through what kinds of interactions and infighting. The analysis grounds Abbott’s framework of jurisdictions and his meso-level vocabulary in a situated account of professional boundary work and follow the way nurses in particular create, and sometimes stabilize or standardize techniques for prevention of lifestyle-related diseases. It is demonstrated by different forms of boundary work how nurses work to extend, defend or refashion established work boundaries when handling these new tasks.

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Chronic lifestyle disease prevention through technical cooperation

International Congress Series ◽

10.1016/j.ics.2004.01.075 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 1267 ◽

pp. 24-32

Author(s):

Michael Coombs ◽

Beverley Wright ◽

Alice Carney ◽

Eva Lewis Fuller ◽

Reizo Mita ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Disease Prevention ◽

Technical Cooperation ◽

Lifestyle Disease

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Health literacy in the urban health infrastructure: who maintains healthcare and how

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/20219802007 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 98 ◽

pp. 02007

Author(s):

Elena Nekhorosheva ◽

Leonid Denisov ◽

Elena Alekseycheva ◽

Daria Kasatkina

Keyword(s):

Health Literacy ◽

Disease Prevention ◽

Healthcare System ◽

Urban Health ◽

Well Being ◽

Two Phase ◽

Daily Work ◽

Intersectoral Cooperation ◽

Health Infrastructure ◽

Integral Assessment

Today we may witness a dire need to research how the urban environment influences urban health, well-being, and sustainability of local communities. The issue of urban health is closely connected with disease prevention projects and the integration of new preventive medical approaches with educational technologies. Due to a large number of responsible parties for the development of health literacy under the authority of different establishments, there is a problem to coordinate aligned activities. Thus the research of the healthcare institutions actions in health literacy development is extremely relevant. The objective of this research is to carry out an integral assessment of the degree to which the functions of preventing non-communicable diseases and developing health literacy are fulfilled by the sectors responsible for urban healthcare. The methods used in this research include a two-phase expert survey: the first group of experts (n: 24) selected the key aspects of healthcare activities, and the second group of experts (n: 35) assessed the quality of implementation of tasks by institutions in charge of disease prevention. The major problem is the lack of effective communication mechanisms in the sphere of intersectoral cooperation, informing the key disease prevention bodies of distributed responsibility, as well as state and social control of execution of laws and regulations. According to the obtained results, the state healthcare system is an important component of the health infrastructure. The functions connected with meeting the vital needs of the city population received medium-high ratings. However, the implementation of disease prevention functions by the healthcare system in Moscow was rated by experts at a low level. Besides, the experts consistently assigned an extremely low rating to the development of health literacy as one of the areas of activity covered by all sectors. To reinforce their outreach and awareness-raising work in the sphere of healthcare, executors of federal projects have to incorporate educational activities into their daily work.

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