• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.41-53
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• 2013

Objectives: As the size of elderly population living alone grows, socioeconomic diversity has also increased. This study examined if social risk factors of poor self-rated health were distinguishable between the low income elderly and their non-low income counterparts both living alone. Methods: The '2006 Elderly Health Interview Survey' conducted by D-gu in Seoul was utilized. We divided the elderly living alone into two groups depending on their economic status: low income and non-low income. Employing logistic regression, we analyzed the associations of poor self-rated health with socio-demographic factors, health-related factors, social support, the relations with children, social activities, welfare service use, and the perception of neighborhood safety. Results: Proportion of rating one's own health being poor was different between two populations. Social support was important for the self-rated health of the non-low income elderly, while welfare service use, the perception of neighborhood safety, and the relations with children were noticeable for the low income elderly. Conclusions: To better understand the health need of elderly population living alone, their heterogeneity in socioeconomic characteristics should be taken into account.

• 한국보건간호학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.416-428
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• 2020

Purpose: This study identified socioeconomic factors affecting the health status of Korean adults. Methods: Secondary data from 12,921 adults aged 19 to 64 old in the 7th Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were used. The participants' health status was measured using the indicators that included health behaviors (smoking, high-risk drinking, strength exercise, and aerobic physical activity) and health outcomes (metabolic syndrome, and subjective health status). Results: For all health behaviors and health outcomes, gender, age, educational level, and income were common affecting factors. Regarding health behaviors, the employment status was related to smoking, high-risk drinking, strength exercise, and aerobic physical activity. The marital status was related to high-risk drinking, strength exercise, and aerobic physical activity. The household type was related to smoking. The residential area was related to smoking, high-risk drinking, and aerobic physical activity. For health outcomes, the household type was related to obesity, and subjective health status; residential area was related to obesity. Conclusion: This study presented basic data for assessing the differences in health status. The characteristics of the affecting factors to health status should be considered, depending on the health behaviors and health outcomes.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.175-194
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• 2016

본 연구는 사회경제적 요인이 중국인의 건강상태에 미치는 영향을 통해 건강불평등 현상의 존재 여부를 고찰하는데 그 목적이 있다. 이를 위하여 중국인의 건강 상태와 사회경제적 특성과 관련된 다양한 정보를 포함하고 있는 자료원인 중국 건강 영양 자료(China Health and Nutrition Survey)의 2000년, 2004년, 2009년 자료를 병합하여 얻은 자료를 바탕으로 Ordinary Least Square model (OLS) 모델과 Ordered Logit 모델을 이용해서 실증분석을 수행하였다. 본 연구에서 얻은 실증분석 결과를 소개하면, 사회경제적 특성을 나타내는 변수들이 중국인의 건강 수준을 나타내는 변수들에 미치는 영향을 분석한 결과, 이들 변수가 중국인의 건강 수준에 미치는 영향이 통계적으로 유의했던바, 이를 토대로 2000년 이래로 중국의 건강불평등 현상이 존재함을 확인하였다.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.5-26
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• 1993

In order to analyze travel mode choice behavior, behavioral models including logit model, based on revealed preference theory, have been using easily measurable variables such as individual socioeconomic characteristics and physical attributes of travel modes. But some recent attitudinal models of travel choice behavior have implied that the negligence of individual psychological variables and individual choice constraints in travel mode choice might preclude better prediction of individual travel mode choice behavior. In this context, this study was attempted to reconstruct an attitudinal model(AM), especially focused on the decision rules in travel mode choice decision making process, consistent with the conceptual framework relating individual attitude and choice constraints to choice behavior. And to evaluate the strengths of the AM to other comparative models(logit, linear-additive, conjunctive, lexicographic model) in predicting travel mode choice bebavior, an empirical study of the mode choice in work-trip to CBD in Seoul was performed. According to the results the percent of correct prediction(PCP) derived from the AM was higher than those derived from comparative models by at least 7 to 20% in predicting travel mode choice. But each model produced a different prediction accuracy depending on market segmentation by travel modal users, individual socioeconomic characteristics, transportation system characteristics, and satisfaction levels. The finding that different groups divided by a certain criterion employ different decision rules supports the necessity of developing a choice model such as the AM combining compensatory and noncompensatory decision rules, and suggests that a proposed transportation system management plan or policy may have different effects on each group.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제56권5호
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• pp.475-480
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• 2023

Objectives: This study examined differences in health care spending and characteristics among older adults in Korea by high-cost status (persistently, transiently, and never high-cost). Methods: We identified 1 364 119 older adults using data from the Korean National Insurance Claims Database for 2017-2019. Outcomes included average annual total health care spending and high-cost status for 2017-2019. Linear regression was used to estimate differences in the outcomes while adjusting for individual-level characteristics. Results: Persistently and transiently high-cost older adults had higher health care spending than never high-cost older adults, but the difference in health care spending was greater among persistently high-cost older adults than among transiently high-cost older adults (US$20 437 vs. 5486). Despite demographic and socioeconomic differences between transiently high-cost and never high-cost older adults, the presence of comorbid conditions remained the most significant factor. However, there were no or small differences in the prevalence of comorbid conditions between persistently high-cost and transiently high-cost older adults. Rather, notable differences were observed in socioeconomic status, including disability and receipt of Medical Aid. Conclusions: Medical risk factors contribute to high health care spending to some extent, but social risk factors may be a source of persistent high-cost status among older adults in Korea.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.51-67
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• 2008

The study analyzes divorce rates in Korea and makes suggestions for the future research of divorce rates. Based on the data from Korea Statistical Information System (KOSIS) of the National Statistics Organization, trends for divorce rates change and the relations between divorce rates and macro environmental factors are analyzed. Macro environmental factors include socioeconomic factors such as, Korean War, Vietnam War, oil shock, IMP economic crisis and gross national income (GNI), whereas demographical factors include population structure, rates of female labor participation, and geographical location. The principle characteristics of divorce rates are as follows: 1) the Crude divorce rates (CDR) and the number of divorced had been increased from 1970 to 2004, then the trend changed to a decrease; 2) the slope of the change were the highest during 1998 to 2004 after the IMP economic crisis. The relations between socioeconomic factors are as follows: 1) during the war there was a small increase of CDR for a short period of time; 2) the economic crisis of the nation tend to increase the CDR, while the IMP economic crisis had a strong impact on an increase of CDR because of the interaction effect among the population structure, women's sex role changes as well as the level of standard of living. The increase in CDR from 1990 to 2000 can be explained partly by the population of baby Boomers passing through their marriage and divorce process. The number of population residing in the rural area and the middle class households, and the mobility of population also had an impact on the divorce rates changes. The recommendations for the future research were as follows: 1) the need to develop new divorce statistics that are based on a marriage cohort or a birth cohort because family behavior is a mixture of personal, social and political responses, and because CDR is not an accurate measure of divorce rate since it was influenced by population structure; 2) the need to include micro personal factors as well as macro social factors in a model to find an interaction effect between those variables.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제51권5호
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• pp.219-226
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• 2018

Objectives: This study aimed to explain the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) gap between the poorest and the wealthiest quintiles in the capitals of Kermanshah and Kurdistan Provinces (Kermanshah and Sanandaj), in western Iran. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted among 1772 adults. Data on socio-demographic characteristics, socioeconomic status (SES), lifestyle factors, body mass index, and HRQoL of participants were collected using a self-administered questionnaire. The slope and relative indices of inequality (SII and RII, respectively) were employed to examine socioeconomic inequality in poor HRQoL. Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition was used to quantify the contribution of explanatory variables to the gap in the prevalence of poor HRQoL between the wealthiest and the poorest groups. Results: The overall crude and age-adjusted prevalence of poor HRQoL among adults was 32.0 and 41.8%, respectively. The SII and RII indicated that poor HRQoL was mainly concentrated among individuals with lower SES. The absolute difference (%) in the prevalence of poor HRQoL between the highest and lowest SES groups was 28.4. The BO results indicated that 49.9% of the difference was explained by different distributions of age, smoking behavior, physical inactivity, chronic health conditions, and obesity between the highest and lowest SES groups, while the remaining half of the gap was explained by the response effect. Conclusions: We observed a pro-rich distribution of poor HRQoL among adults in the capitals of Kermanshah and Kurdistan Provinces. Policies and strategies aimed at preventing and reducing smoking, physical inactivity, chronic health conditions, and obesity among the poor may reduce the gap in poor HRQoL between the highest and lowest SES groups in Iran.

• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.49-58
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to identify the eating habits and attitudes by socioeconomic factors(sex, age, educational level and annual family income) of adults in rural areas. The survey was administered by the nationwide 580 adult persons in rural in February 2001. The survey was conducted by a questionnaire that was composed of 20 items of likert-type scale. These data were analyzed by using SPSS(version 10.0) PC package and were expressed by mean and frequency. The results are following : 1) The degree of efforts to eating safe and fresh food were significantly different according to age(p<0.05), educational level(p<0.001) and annual family income(p<0.001). 2) The degree of efforts to nutritional balanced diet were significantly different by age(p<0.05) and annual family income(p<0.00l). 3) The concern about overeating of energyㆍsaltㆍfat were increased as the educational level goes up(p<0.001). 4) Meal regularity was more regular as age goes up(p<0.05). 5) Regarding for eating a variety of food were differed significantly by age(p<0.05) and educational level(p<0.01). 6) There are significantly different in duration of meal time of the subjects by sex(p<0.001), age(p<0.05) and educational level(p<0.0l). 7) Preference for snacks was significantly different by age (p<0.05) and educational level(p<0.0l). 8) There were significant differences in preference for processed foods(p<0.001) and frequency of using a chemical seasoning in cooking(p<0.05) of the subjects by educational level. 9) As the age(p<0.001) goes up and the educational level(p<0.001) and annual family income(p<0.001) goes down, they did not recognize the necessity for improving eating habits. According to these results, there were differences in eating habits between socioeconomic characteristics group in rural area. Therefore, this study can be used as basic data for specific nutritional intervention program in rural areas.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 독거노인의 사회경제적 지위 잠재유형을 분류한 후, 사회경제적 지위 잠재유형과 자아존중감과의 관계를 살펴보았다. 이를 위해 2009년도 전국노인학대실태조사의 자료 중, 65세 이상 독거노인 1,333명의 자료를 분석하였다. 연구문제를 해결하기 위해 잠재유형분석 및 일원변량분석, 위계적 회귀분석을 실시하였으며, 주요 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 사회경제적 지위는 5개의 잠재유형으로 분류되었으며, 각각 고학력-저소득 집단, 저학력-저소득 집단, 중간학력-저소득 집단, 고학력-고소득 집단, 저학력-고소득 집단으로 명명되었다. 둘째, 자아존중감은 저학력-저소득 집단이 저학력-고소득 집단, 고학력-저소득 집단, 고학력-고소득 집단보다 낮게 나타났으며, 중간학력-저소득 집단이 고학력-저소득 집단과 고학력-고소득 집단보다 낮게 나타났다. 또한, 저학력-고소득 집단의 자아존중감이 고학력-고소득 집단보다 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 저학력-저소득 집단에 비해 고학력-저소득 집단, 중간학력-저소득 집단, 고학력-고소득 집단, 저학력-고소득 집단은 자아존중감에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 이러한 결과는 통제변수가 추가 투입된 모형에서도 일관되게 나타났다. 이를 근거로 독거노인의 하위집단별 특성에 관한 기초자료와 그들의 삶의 질을 향상하기 위한 실천 및 정책적 함의를 제공한다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.231-247
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• 2019

본 연구는 노인의 사회경제적 박탈, 특히 사회경제적 박탈의 하위변수들이 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향에서 우울이 매개하는지를 살펴보는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위해 한국복지패널 12차년도(2017년) 자료를 사용하였다. 분석은 Baron과 Kenny(1986)의 매개효과 분석방법을 활용하였고, 우울의 매개효과에 대한 검증을 위해 Sobel Test를 실시하였다. 본 연구의 결과, 첫째 노인의 사회경제적 박탈 하위변수인 주거박탈, 식생활박탈, 사회보장박탈, 사회적박탈, 건강의료박탈, 직업경제박탈이 삶의 만족도에 유의하게 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 노인의 사회경제적 박탈의 하위변수인 주거박탈, 식생활박탈, 사회적박탈, 직업경제박탈, 건강의료박탈이 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향에서 우울이 부분매개효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 사회경제적 박탈의 하위변수인 주거박탈, 식생활박탈, 사회적박탈, 직업경제박탈, 건강의료박탈을 경험할수록 우울이 증가하고 삶의 만족도는 낮아지게 되는 것을 확인하였다. 따라서 노인의 삶의 만족을 향상시키기 위해서는 사회경제적 박탈 유형 및 우울의 개인적 특성을 반영한 정책과 서비스가 제공되어야 하며, 이때 소득중심의 빈곤개념에서 벗어나 일상생활에서 경험하는 다차원적 결핍을 파악할 수 있는 기준선이 마련되어야함을 제시하였다.