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신경림 ( ) - 이화여자대학교 간호과학대학
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Abstract
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Compared to urban communities, rural districts are in lack of medical service. With an increasing population of old aged people and low economical in-come, the demand for reinforcing health organizations is growing. Woman´s health is especially an important source of their family members´ lives. Public health policies and studies for women´s health, how-
ever, have emphasized only child-maternal health to want general covering and studies of health and wellness.
Particularly study of women´s health in rural area is almost rare that personal, material benefits in this area lack quantity, amount of women´s labor is big, and basic elements of living such as diet and elimination are irregular, due to the range of the tide thus has many potential health problems.
In this regard, this study attempted to grasp the health problems of adult women in rural area and to provide bases for developing health promotion and health education programs.
In collecting data for this study, face to face inter-views were made through a structured questionnaire from January to April 1 in 1998.
And collected data were analyzed with SAS statistics program, descriptive statistics, ttest and ANOVA. Subjects´ health status were examined by classifying into such as their health perception, complained health problem, smoking, alcohol intake, sub-stance abuse, health behavior, compreh(,nsive medical testing, muscle strength, and stretch,ng, and the result of examination is as follows :
1. As for subjects´ health perception, 1.47% of the subject answered that ´not sick but not so healthy´ 27.94% thought they were healthy, while 69.7% answered they were not healthy.
2. As for the complained health problem, many complained pains in the muscle and skeletal system, especially back pain, finger joint and knee joint pain. Women´s health problems related with the breast and reproductive system included case of 52.26% of receiving the breast self examination while 56.55% of receiving the cervical cancer screening test.
3. As for the rate of smoking, 1.47% used to smoke while 40.30% used to intake alcohol.
4. Rate of substance abuse was 46.03% of the sub ject.
5. Rate of subjects receiving the comprehensive medical testing was 36.76% while 63.24% did of terward managing behaviors.
6.47% of subjects´ muscle strength and 13% of stretching were not good enough to need the health education on physical exercises.
Therefore, based on this result, appropriate health education programs require to be developed to promote the adult women´s health in rurla area.
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KeyWords
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여성건강, 농촌지역
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원문 및 링크아웃 정보
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등재저널 정보
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