ABSTRACT
Healthy lifestyles and health literacy protect health and well-being of communities. The health education promoter of healthy lifestyles and health literacy tries to achieve health gains in the medium and long term. The National Occupational Health Program - 2nd Cycle 2013/2017 establishes objectives to guarantee the value of workers' health, promoting work practices and healthy lifestyles. In this sense, the potential of Nursing at Work intervention, which translates to positive repercussions, is unquestionable. The objective was to describe the health literacy and lifestyles of adult workers of a public service institution of the Autonomous Region of Madeira. A cross-sectional study was developed in a sample of 98 workers, with a mean age of 51 years and mostly male (76.5%). Was used a data collection instrument with the sociodemographic characteristics, the European Health Literacy Survey [-C of 0.97] and the questionnaire "FANTASTIC Lifestyles" [-C 0.725]. Complied with the ethical procedures inherent to this type of study. In general health literacy, 61.2% presented limited literacy, being 53.1% problematic and 8.2% inadequate. In functional health literacy, 47.96% showed limited literacy. In lifestyle 6.1% presented a score of regular level, 9.2% of good level, 59.2% of very good level and 25.5% an excellent level. There is a positive and statistically significant correlation (p = 0.036) between the general lifestyle score and the overall health literacy score.There is a need for interventions that promote more salutogenic behaviors, such as adequate diet and regular physical activity, health surveillance and self-care, in order to raise the awareness of the target population
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