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Objective To survey the utilization of basic public health service among hypertensive and diabetic patients in communities.Methods A survey on the utilization of basic public health service was conducted between October 2014 and November 2014,1 511 patients with hypertension and 1 508 patients with type 2 diabetes aged ≥35 years were randomly selected for the survey from 18 communities in 2 cities and 4 townships of Shandong and Jiangsu provinces in China.Results The survey showed that 87.0％ (1 314/1 511) of hypertensive patients and 88.5％ (1 334/1 508) of diabetic patients visited community hcalth services within the year,and the blood pressure/blood glucose elevation were found in community health services in 68.5％ (1 035/1 511) of the hypertensive patients and 53.3％ (804/1 508) of the diabetic patients,respectively.The proportion of participants in community health education was higher in rural areas than that in urban areas [hypertension 73.2％ (556/760) vs.60.3％ (453/751),x2 =48.48,P ＜ 0.01;diabetes 77.8％ (591/760) vs.62.6％ (468/748),x2 =43.73,P ＜ 0.01].The proportion of outpatients who were followed up for more than 4 times was higher in rural areas than that in urban areas [hypertension 61.3％ (466/760) vs.48.4％ (363/751),x2 =79.31,P ＜ 0.01;diabetes 58.8％ (447/760) vs.50.5％ (378/748),x2 =17.78,P ＜0.01].The self-test rate of blood pressure and blood glucose in the urban was higher than that in rural areas [hypertension 41.8％ (314/751) vs.17.8％ (135/760),x2=104.59,P＜0.01;diabetes41.7％ (312/748) vs.11.3％ (86/760),x2=179.28,P ＜ 0.01].The proportion of patients with hypertension who did not take medication was higher in rural areas than in that in urban areas [36.7％ (279/760) vs.24.0％ (180/751),x2 =70.88,P ＜ 0.01],and the proportion of patients with diabetes who did not take medication was not statistically significant between rural and urban areas [20.8％ (156/760) vs.19.8％ (148/748),x2 =1.95,P ＞ 0.05].The control rates of hypertension and diabetes were 39.8％ (602/1 511) and 39.6％ (597/ 1 508),respectively.82.5％ (1 247/1 511) hypertensive patients and 75.6％ (1 140/1 508) diabetic patients selected community clinics for treatment and disease management,and satisfaction rate with primary health care in community clinics were 82.1％ (1 077/1 312) and 82.5％ (1 101/1 334) respectively.Conclusions High percentage of community clinic choice and visit was found,and most of the patients got the recommendation about health life style.But difference existed between the practice of self-monitoring of blood pressure and fasting blood glucose and control of blood pressure and blood glucose and plan of chronic disease prevention and control.
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Objective To investigate and compare the food consumption concepts and behaviors of Beijing's urban and suburban residents. Methods Intercept questionnaire surveys were conducted on 287 urban customers shopping at a Jingkelong supermarket located in Chaoyang district and 307 suburban customers shopping at a Meilianmei supermarket located in town of Changping, Changping district at 2 randomly chosen times (all between 1:00PM and 5:00PM) from October to December 2007 in each supermarket. Results 93.1% of Beijing residents went to supermarket as their primary place for food shopping. 47.8% and 38.2% of residents thought the most important factors considered for their food shopping were "food hygiene and safety" and "its effects on health" respectively. Suburban residents were concerned more about "food hygiene and safety", while urban residents more about "effects on health" (P