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Health literacy (HL) is influential in individual's decision concerning health care choices through critically obtaining, understanding, and using health-related information. It is taken as an essential factor for health protection and promotion. This study intends to examine and understand the associations between HL, health information access, and health care choices when people feel ill, in order to guide individuals to safer decision making in using health services (regular checkup, use doctor service, change behavior) and avoiding unsafe choices (self-medication, ignoring symptoms). A questionnaire survey was conducted in Hefei city, China. The sample consisted of 279 participants aged 18-60 years old. Findings show that HL is associated with sociodemographic variables being higher in younger aged, more educated, and with a better economic status. Also, controlling for these variables, findings show that people with higher critical literacy tend to use health checkup and are more likely to prefer books/brochures as information source; people who seek health information from magazines, radio, and books/brochures tend to use doctor service. These findings suggest there is room for individuals, professionals, and Government to improve public HL levels and the quality of multiple health information in order to foster health prevention and correction. ; A literacia em saúde (LS) influencia a decisão individual respeitante às escolhas de saúde através da aquisição, compreensão e uso crítico de informação relacionada com a saúde. É considerada um fator essencial para a proteção e promoção da saúde. O presente estudo pretende examinar e compreender as associações entre a LS, o acesso a informação sobre saúde, e as escolhas de tratamento quando as pessoas se sentem doentes, para guiar os indivíduos na direção de melhores decisões na utilização de serviços de saúde (checkup regular, consulta médica, mudança comportamental) e evitar as escolhas inseguras (auto-medicação, ignorar os sintomas). Foi realizado um inquérito por questionário na cidade de Hefei na China. A amostra compreende 279 participantes com idades compreendidas entre os 18 e os 60 anos. Os resultados mostram que a LS está associada a variáveis sociodemográficas sendo maior nos mais jovens, mais escolarizados e com melhor situação económica. Adicionalmente, controlando estas variáveis, os resultados mostram que as pessoas com maior literacia crítica tendem a recorrer mais a checkup e têm maior probabilidade de escolher livros enquanto fonte de informação. As pessoas que procuram informação com base em revistas, rádio e livros tendem a usar mais a consulta médica. Estes resultados sugerem margem para melhoria para os indivíduos, profissionais de saúde e autoridades para melhorar os níveis públicos de LS e a qualidade de múltiplas informações sobre saúde para promover a prevenção e tratamento de problemas de saúde.

As climate change, food crises, sustainable development, and ecological conservation gain traction, the revival of traditional fishing villages has become an important governmental policy for Taiwan. To reduce cognitive bias, the choice experiment method was applied to construct an attribute function in fishing village tourism coupled with virtual reality headsets. Conditional logit and random parameter logit models were employed to estimate tourism utility functions. Moreover, a latent class model was employed to determine whether hetxerogeneous preferences regarding fishing village travel existed. The sampling sites were distributed across the Dongshi area. In total, 612 tourists and 170 local residents were interviewed. After incomplete questionnaires were removed, 816 valid questionnaires remained, representing 95.83% of the total questionnaires. Older residents and residents with shorter histories of education were inclined to increase land development and utilization by reducing natural landscapes; tourists preferred preserving landscapes and preventing land development. Residents with more education believed that local landscape imagery was essential. Tourists who were more educated, with high incomes, and those who were older believed that a selling platform incorporating local industries and products within the villages would be attractive for other tourists.

In this paper, the overall ecological and environmental sustainability in the Cing-Jing region in Taiwan is examined. As land use and cover change has been found to be an important analysis method, an emergy ecological footprint model was applied and the eco-security assessed to ensure authorities maintain a balance between ecological preservation and tourism development. While the ecological environment in the Cing-Jing region from 2008 to 2014 was found to be within safe levels, all related indices had increased considerably. A Grey model was used to predict the 2015–2024 ecological carrying capacities, from which it was found that there is expected to be a large increase in per capita ecological footprints (EFs), meaning that in the future there is going to be a larger ecological deficit and a higher ecological pressure index (EFI), with the eco-security predicted to reach a Grade 2 intermediate level in 2022. As the Cing-Jing region is predicted to become ecologically unsustainable, local, regional, and national governments need to implement regulations to strictly control the land use in the Cing-Jing region. This study demonstrated that emergy EF (EEF) theory application can give objective guidance to decision-makers to ensure that recreational non-urban eco-security can be maintained at a safe level.