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

BMC Public Health

Table 5 OLS estimates on having comorbid chronic diseases - Urban sample

Dep: Has a specific chronic disease	Cerebro.	Cerebro.	Heart	Diabetes	Diabetes
Dep: Has a specific chronic disease	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
Sample	Urban	Urban	Urban	Urban	Urban
Adequate health literacy on CDP (=1)	0.001	0.001	0.005	−0.001	−0.001
	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.005)	(0.007)	(0.007)
Heart problems (=1)	0.064***			0.034
	(0.011)			(0.028)
Adequate health literacy on CDP × Heart problems	−0.072***			−0.045
	(0.021)			(0.055)
Cancer		0.049***
		(0.018)
Adequate health literacy on CDP × Cancer		− 0.059*
		(0.032)
Cerebrovascular disease (=1)			0.187***		0.092*
			(0.031)		(0.047)
Adequate health literacy on CDP × Cerebrovascular disease			−0.234***		−0.164
			(0.066)		(0.100)
Observations	4002	4002	4002	4002	4002
R-squared	0.018	0.011	0.032	0.037	0.037

Note: The dependent variable is a binary variable indicating whether the respondent has a specific chronic disease (e.g. =1 if has cerebrovascular disease, 0 otherwise in in column 1). Other covariates in each column include gender, annual income, household members, occupation, age and education (and constant). ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1. Standard errors in parentheses

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