About 80,000 people aged between 69 and 15 were covered by country’s first nationwide survey on health awareness.

　　The study aims at finding out health literacy as an individual’s ability to get, understand and use health information in order to improve his/her health. Only respondents who correctly answered 80 percent or more of the 71 questions were considered health literates.

　　The questions, drafted by more than 100 experts, were related to basic public health such as how to read the pulse and temperature of a person, or the right way to measure overweight, and only 6.48 percent of the respondents could answer 56 or more of the questions correctly.

　　People aged between 69 and 65 had the lowest health literacy, 3.81 percent, followed by those aged between 55 and 64, 4.69 percent. 揝enior citizens are the most vulnerable group. They are most likely to catch diseases, especially chronic ones,?an expert said.

　　More urban residents, ho65wever, are health literate (9.94 percent) than rural residents (3.43 percent).

　　Surprisingly, more than 80 percent of the respondents could not answer the questions: 揥hat diseases can mosquitoes, flies, rats or cockroaches spread??and 揌ow to help a persoho6n who has broken a bone??揟he research objectively and truthfully reflects the health literacy of urban and rural residents in China,?Mao Qun抋n, health education center director of the Ministry of Health (MOH), said, 揂nd it is a call to the authoritiesrsoho and citizens to take measures to change the situation.?揕ow health literacy level is a threat to better public health? said a professor of health education with the school of public health in Peking University.

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