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The purpose of this study was to assess the morbidity pattern and to identify the factors related with the morbidity pattern of the residents in urban poor area. Household survey was conducted in the Sung-S대 poor area of Taegu City from 1 July to 10 August 1996. Well trained one home health nurse and three nursing students interviewed with a respondent of each household who agreed to answer the questionnaire. 501 households were selected by one-stage simple cluster random sampling.
The results were summarized as follows :
Morbidity rate of acute illness during the 15 day period was 118 per 1,000 persons. Female morbidity rate(125 per 1,000) was higher than male morbidity rate(88 per 1,000).
Accident, drug intoxication, pesticides intoxication, and gas intoxication experienced rate during last one year was 36 per 1,000. Female experienced rate(28 per 1,000) was lower than male experienced rate(78 per 1,000).
The rate for chronic illness during last one year was 337 per 1,000 persons and those of female rate (313 per 1,000) was lower than male rate(431 per 1,000). Those who have spouse(259 per 1,000) was lower than that of divorced separated(323 per 1,000) and spouse died(610 per 1,000). The rate of on their twenties(99 per 1,000) are lower than on their of sixties(623 per 1,000). When they have less number of family, they had more chronic illness and those who lives alone had highest chronic illness(667 per 1,000).
Admission rate of 1,000 persons, during one-year period was 92, and female admission rate(72) was lower than male admission rate(147).
The rate of those who have medical insurance for government employees, private school teachers and occupational employees beneficiaries(67 per 1,000), medical insurance for regional beneficiaries(75 per 1,000)were lower than those who have medical aid beneficiaries(165 per 1,000).
25 questions were asked on subjective symptoms of adult disease, the most frequent symptoms answered was "tiredness and fatigue"(325 per 1,000). "Blurred vision"(279 per 1,000), "cannot see the object clearly"(200 per 1,000), "indigestion and difficult to take food"(166 per 1,000), "shortness of breath"((160 per 1,000), "get bloated up with gas"(154 per 1,000), "expectorate thick sputum when coughing"(104 per 1,000), "edema on lower extremity"(98 per 1,000) were followed.
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