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• TITLE: Age- and Sex-Specific Impact of Health Literacy on Healthy Lifestyle Characteristics among Japanese Residents in a Rural Community

  AUTHORS: Hirohide Yokokawa, Motoyuki Yuasa, Hironobu Sanada, Teruhiko Hisaoka, Hiroshi Fukuda

  KEYWORDS: Epidemiology, Health Promotion, Health Literacy, Community Health, Lifestyle

  JOURNAL NAME: Health, Vol.7 No.6, June 12, 2015

  ABSTRACT: The study aimed to examine age- and sex-specific associations between health literacy (HL) and healthy lifestyle characteristics. The cross-sectional study was conducted to examine a total 1348 Japanese participants (613 male and 735 female) who took the health check-up program in April 2013, at Tsumagoi Village, Japan. Information was collected by self-administered questionnaire on three communicative and two critical HL items, and healthy lifestyle characteristics listed in Bres-low’s seven health practices. In multivariate logistic analysis, high HL (≥18) was significantly asso-ciated with healthy lifestyle characteristics in both non-elderly (