Health literacy and its effect on chronic disease prevention: evidence from China’s data

BMC Public Health

Table 4 OLS estimates on having adequate health literacy on CDP: Disease effects

Dep: Has adequate health literacy on CDP	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Panel A: Urban sample
Any chronic diseases (=1)	0.031*
	(0.018)
Duration first chronic disease: One year		0.064**
		(0.029)
Duration first chronic disease: 2–4 years		0.026
		(0.026)
Duration first chronic disease: 5+ years		0.010
		(0.027)
One disease			−0.028
			(0.019)
Two+ diseases			0.016
			(0.039)
Hypertension (=1)				0.042**
				(0.021)
Observations	4002	3994	4002	4002
R-squared	0.077	0.078	0.077	0.078
Panel B: Rural Sample
Any chronic diseases (=1)	0.010
	(0.015)
Duration first chronic disease: One year		0.090***
		(0.021)
Duration first chronic disease: 2–4 years		−0.019
		(0.022)
Duration first chronic disease: 5+ years		−0.082***
		(0.026)
One disease			−0.004
			(0.016)
Two+ diseases			0.039
			(0.032)
Heart problems (=1)				0.117**
				(0.045)
Observations	4192	4185	4192	4192
R-squared	0.045	0.053	0.046	0.047

Note: Dependent variable is a binary variable indicating the level of health literacy (=1 if has adequate health literacy on CDP, 0 otherwise). Other covariates include gender, annual income, household members, occupation, age and education (and constant). Full list of disease types in column (4) include hypertension, heart problems, cerebrovascular disease, diabetes and cancer and other diseases. Sample size differs in column (2) due to incomplete information provided by respondents on the elapsed time since the first chronic disease was diagnosed. ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1. Standard errors in parentheses

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