This study was to provide basic data for developing a health promotion program for adult women in rural area by analyzing data on health status and life style. The subjects were 1036 adult women over 20 years old from 7 rural areas in Gyeonggi-do, Jeo...
This study was to provide basic data for developing a health promotion program for adult women in rural area by analyzing data on health status and life style. The subjects were 1036 adult women over 20 years old from 7 rural areas in Gyeonggi-do, Jeolla-do and Gyeongsang-do. Data collection was conducted through the use of questionnaire. Analyzing the health status, before and after pregnancy care should be strengthened so that rural women can decrease the development of pregnancy and childbirth complications. Rural women showed to have many health problems according to age, education family type and monthly income and etc. Therefore, such characteristics should be considered while developing a health improvement program. Especially, to improve health for the rural women who's education and economic standard is low, political concerns of the government should be made. Analyzing the life style, moderate solutions to increase breast cancer examination rate and exercise rate and to decrease drinking rate are in need for rural women. Since there are many rural women who take medical examination irregularly and especially the medical examination rate in their 30s and over 60s are low, health education and health responsibility should be reinforced on those subjects. Nutrition education should be strengthened so that rural women can obtain balanced meals.