The results of the survey on Chinese citizens' TCM health and cultural literacy were released in 2017

December 26, 2018 people's political consultative conference network

Net people's political consultative conference in Beijing on December 26, 26 (reporter xi-mei liu) published by the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine for over 2017 years of Chinese citizens health literacy survey of traditional Chinese medicine: Chinese citizens health literacy of Chinese medicine in 2017 reached 13.39%, namely every 100 of 15 ~ 69 years old, more than 13 people with the basic of traditional Chinese medicine health literacy. The survey was conducted jointly by the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine and the former national health and family planning commission. 328 survey sites were randomly selected from 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government), covering 89,107 permanent residents aged 16-69.

Compared with 2016, the results of this survey show that: Chinese citizens' health literacy has been improved by 0.54%; Chinese citizens' level of TCM health and cultural literacy has been improved to varying degrees in five dimensions, namely, the basic concept of TCM, the healthy lifestyle of TCM, the appropriate methods for the public of TCM, the common sense of TCM culture, and the ability to understand TCM information. Among them, the increase in information understanding ability and literacy level is the largest, indicating that the public's ability to identify TCM health and cultural information is improving. The report also shows that the level of TCM health and cultural literacy of rural residents and residents in central and western China is improving rapidly. Although there is still a large gap between urban and rural residents and between regions, the gap is narrowing.

In response to the report, Chad zhong, spokesman for the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine, said that the next step will be to focus on improving the quality of traditional Chinese medicine health and cultural literacy in key regions and groups, and further narrow the gap between urban and rural areas, regions and different groups. At the same time, continue to make traditional Chinese medicine health culture idea spread and increase the action class content, a good combination of traditional Chinese medicine health culture transmission, adhere to the combination of content and form, agencies and media, continue to promote traditional Chinese culture into the campus, into the unit of work, and introduce a batch of products is suitable for network transmission of public health of traditional Chinese medicine culture. In addition, we should give full play to the role of communities and families in improving the level of TCM health and cultural literacy, actively create a learning atmosphere of TCM health culture in communities, give full play to the advantages of different family members, and promote the improvement of the level of TCM health and cultural literacy of residents.