Data · dataset · 2001
The Health-related Quality of Life and Its Relationship with Social Factors of Ninth-graders and the Elderly in Hsolin and Peitou Districts
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To understand and learn the reasons which cause unequal health status between the mountaineers and people in plain area, the author conducts a study which examines people in mountainous Hsolin village, Hualien and people in urban Peitou, Taipei.
Description
The survey, by self-administrated and interviewer-aided questionnaires, randomly samples ninth-graders and over sixty-five-year elders. Starting from the late November in 1998 to the early April in 1999, the author collects 1092 valid questionnaires in total, 502 from the teenagers nd 590 from the elderly.
The findings show that in both age groups, there exists significant difference in health-related quality of life(HRQL)between subjects of different districts. Social factors(gender, marital status, social position index, social support system, recognition of modern medicine) plays a significant role in explaining HRQL. Especially in the elderly, the coefficients of determinant(r2)of regression model are near 0.5 in several dimensions of HRQL.
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More than half of the coefficient of determinant of each regression model can be attributed to the pure effect of the above mentioned social factors. The author suggests that to eliminate the existing gap of health status, instead of over-investment of medical service, we should provide mountaineers with appropriate education and vocational training. What more important, however, is to do the above with a respectful mind to local culture and life style.
Only when better social conditions are gained, the mountaineers will be aware of the importance of health and then pursue it aggressively.
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- Human geography 73%
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