Estudio exploratorio del impacto del alfabetismo funcional sobre conductas sanitarias deficientes a nivel poblacional

Background: Health Literacy is the set of skills that constitute the ability to perform reading and numerical tasks to function in the health care environment. People with functional illiteracy are unable to understand written documents and therefore sanitary information. Aim: To explore the effects...

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Autor principal:	Russo,Moisés
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2015
Materias:	Chile Health Literacy Health Services Misuse Papanicolaou Test
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988720150007000052015-09-03Estudio exploratorio del impacto del alfabetismo funcional sobre conductas sanitarias deficientes a nivel poblacionalRusso,Moisés Chile Health Literacy Health Services Misuse Papanicolaou Test Background: Health Literacy is the set of skills that constitute the ability to perform reading and numerical tasks to function in the health care environment. People with functional illiteracy are unable to understand written documents and therefore sanitary information. Aim: To explore the effects of functional illiteracy on personal health care behaviors in Chile. Material and Methods: Using the Chilean Social Characterization Survey of 2006, respondents were separated into those that had read a book in the last year and those that had not as a proxy variable for functional literacy. Using econometric models, the impact of this variable on having a Papanicolaou (PAP) smear done and consulting in primary health clinics rather than in emergency services, was explored. Results: The survey is nationally representative, and 76% interviewees declared not having read a book in the last year. Probability of having a PAP smear done during the last three years was higher among women who had read a book with an OR of 1.19 (1.15-1.25). Likewise, the probability of consulting in emergency services rather than in primary health clinics was lower among those who had read a book with an OR of 0.85 (0.80-0.91). Conclusions: This study provides evidence of possible impacts of low functional literacy in health care behaviors in the Chilean population.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.143 n.7 20152015-07-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872015000700005es10.4067/S0034-98872015000700005
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topic	Chile Health Literacy Health Services Misuse Papanicolaou Test
spellingShingle	Chile Health Literacy Health Services Misuse Papanicolaou Test Russo,Moisés Estudio exploratorio del impacto del alfabetismo funcional sobre conductas sanitarias deficientes a nivel poblacional
description	Background: Health Literacy is the set of skills that constitute the ability to perform reading and numerical tasks to function in the health care environment. People with functional illiteracy are unable to understand written documents and therefore sanitary information. Aim: To explore the effects of functional illiteracy on personal health care behaviors in Chile. Material and Methods: Using the Chilean Social Characterization Survey of 2006, respondents were separated into those that had read a book in the last year and those that had not as a proxy variable for functional literacy. Using econometric models, the impact of this variable on having a Papanicolaou (PAP) smear done and consulting in primary health clinics rather than in emergency services, was explored. Results: The survey is nationally representative, and 76% interviewees declared not having read a book in the last year. Probability of having a PAP smear done during the last three years was higher among women who had read a book with an OR of 1.19 (1.15-1.25). Likewise, the probability of consulting in emergency services rather than in primary health clinics was lower among those who had read a book with an OR of 0.85 (0.80-0.91). Conclusions: This study provides evidence of possible impacts of low functional literacy in health care behaviors in the Chilean population.
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title	Estudio exploratorio del impacto del alfabetismo funcional sobre conductas sanitarias deficientes a nivel poblacional
title_short	Estudio exploratorio del impacto del alfabetismo funcional sobre conductas sanitarias deficientes a nivel poblacional
title_full	Estudio exploratorio del impacto del alfabetismo funcional sobre conductas sanitarias deficientes a nivel poblacional
title_fullStr	Estudio exploratorio del impacto del alfabetismo funcional sobre conductas sanitarias deficientes a nivel poblacional
title_full_unstemmed	Estudio exploratorio del impacto del alfabetismo funcional sobre conductas sanitarias deficientes a nivel poblacional
title_sort	estudio exploratorio del impacto del alfabetismo funcional sobre conductas sanitarias deficientes a nivel poblacional
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate	2015
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Estudio exploratorio del impacto del alfabetismo funcional sobre conductas sanitarias deficientes a nivel poblacional

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