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Factors associated with US women’s health status

Hack A Weekend *

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Team: Blingbling

Members: Liangyue Lu, Jessica Shi, Baihui Li

*This project is designed for Challenge #2: How can we use modern health information to improve women's health?

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  • Literacy, numeracy, and problem solving skills in technology rich environment (PS-TRE)

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  • Information Communication Technology (ICT) using (at home or at work)

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  • The approaches by which women seek for health related information

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We assume that the following factors associated with women’s health status:

HYPOTHESES

Dataset

We used the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) US data to answer the research questions. The purpose of PIAAC is “to assess and compare the basic skills and the broad range of competencies of adults around the world” (NCES, n.d.). PIAAC study also collect participants extended background information, including their health related information.

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CONCLUSIONS

The results of this project show

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Women with better health have significantly better literacy, numeracy, and problem solving skills in technology rich environments. They also use significantly more information and communication technology at home and at work. They rely more on health care professionals and the internet to seek health information.

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The results suggest

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If policy makers or health care professionals would like to use modern health information to improve women’s health, they may want to make sure women have appropriate skills to make good use of modern health information and have appropriate channels for seeking health information.

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PARTICIPATERS and REFERENCES

  • National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC); July 15, 2018 retrieved from https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/

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  • The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), PIAAC US data file; July 15, 2018 retrieved from http://vs-web-fs-1.oecd.org/piaac/puf-data

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  • The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), PIAAC US data file codebook; July 15, 2018 retrieved from http://www.oecd.org/skills/piaac/codebook_synthetic.pdf

Baihui Li (Slack: Baihui Li)

Liangyue Lu (Slack: Liangyue Lu)

Jessica Shi (Slack: jessicashi)