| Keywords |
Self-rated health ; Older adults |
| Abstract |
This study was attempted to identify the current status of self-rated health(SRH) of the aged and its related factors. This study used the original data of 2012 Community Health Survey implemented by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As a result of this study, the positive rate of SRH among old adults was appeared to be 24.6%. Older adults reside in urban areas may have statistically and significantly higher possibility to have positive SRH than older adults reside in rural areas. As shown from model 3, the socio-demographic factors of age, education level, income, life style factors like smoking, drinking, physical activities, participation in exercise programs, influenza vaccination and unmet medical needs, psycho-social factors of stress and depression, and physical condition such as activity limitation, injury experience and most of chronic diseases excluding UI of male older adults and pulmonary tuberculosis of female older adults are still showing statistically significant relationships with the regional factors. Thus it is necessary to clarify the effects of individual factors and regional factors related to SRH of the aged, plus, investigating variables of regional effects by considering the social environment conditions related to health. |