Abstract: Objective To explore the awareness status on tuberculosis(TB) prevention and control among public in Tianjin, and to provide scientific evidence for expanding and perfecting health promotion and promoting health education in future. MethodsQuestionnaire investigation was carried out among the study subjects selected by multiatage stratified systematic randomized sampling in Tianjin. ResultsThe awareness rate of key messages on TB prevention and control among 4591 permanent residents from the age of 12 to 65 was 58.2％, the awareness rate of 3 main key messages was 6.9％; the rate of having reasonable attitude among the publics was 24.2％; the main sources of TB knowledge was learning from other people (62.8％),television(55.6％) and radio(37.7%）. ConclusionsHealth education should be strengthened to different people by various ways and focused on special groups such as the female, the poor, the less educated and workers, so that whole society participate in TB prevention and control. In this way case finding rate and treatment success rate will be increased, and the target of controlling TB prevalence and protect people’s health will finally be achieved.

Key words: Tuberculosis/prevention & control, health education, questionnaires, Tianjin city