• D.R.SAMJI
• Dr.M.GANESHBABU

Health literacy has been defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. Currently, few studies have validated the causal pathways of determinants of health literacy through the use of statistical modeling. The purpose of the present study was to develop and validate a health literacy model at an individual level that could best explain the determinants of health literacy and the associations between health literacy and health behaviors even health status. Skill-based health literacy test and a self-administrated questionnaire survey were conducted among 600 Kanyakumari district adult residents. Friedman test analysis was applied to validate the model. This model explains the determinants of health literacy and the associations between health literacy and health behaviours well. It could be applied to develop intervention strategies to increase individual health literacy, and then to promote health behaviour and health status.

Health literacy, Health behaviour, Social factor, Determinants

"DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH LITERACY AND HEALTH BEHAVIOUR OF ADULT POPULATION IN KANYAKUMARI DISTRICT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.683-687, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901A83.pdf

"DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH LITERACY AND HEALTH BEHAVIOUR OF ADULT POPULATION IN KANYAKUMARI DISTRICT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp683-687, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901A83.pdf