Health status of rural householders and their demands for health service

Objective To study the health status of rural householders and their needs for health service to provide a basis for health department to constitute scientific policy and deploy health resource.Methods The sample was randomly chosen with cluster sampling method and the subjects were interviewed with sel-fmade questionnaire.Results The twoweek disease prevalence rate was 4.7%.1.18% of the subjects had a pain or disease during a half of yea;rtherate of hospitalizateion in the latest year was 9.8%.The prevalence of chronic disease was 26.6%,among which chronic gastro intestinal tract disease was the most prevalent(accounting for 14.1%).The prevalence of hypertension was 13.9%,amlost twice as the hypertension awareness rate.Only 7.6% of rural householders participated health examination in past two years.Without kmowledge of health examination was the primary reason for the participants did not have physical examination(45.1%).The huoseholders had urgent demands for health services,and 64.2% of them hoped to get health consultation,59.3% wished to get physical examination,and 45% hoped to get dietetic suggestion.Conclusion The rural househo lders are not good in health status and need knowledge of health care urgently.