scholarly journals Regional Disparity in Adult Obesity Prevalence, and Its Determinants

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 410-419
Author(s):  
Bongjeong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
Health Determinants ◽  
Obesity Prevalence ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Community Health Survey ◽  
Prevalence Of Obesity ◽  
High Risk Drinking

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the factors affecting regional disparities in the prevalence of adult obesity.Methods: This study is an ecological study in which the unit of analysis were 229 local authorities (si = 78, gun = 82, and gu = 68). The data were obtained from database (ver 1.1) of community health outcomes and health determinants (2015-2017) and Community Health Survey data (2018-2019). Multiple regression analysis was used to identify factors related to the prevalence of obesity in 4 groups (all regions, si, gun, and gu).Results: The prevalence of regional obesity varied 23.5% to 45.15% with a mean of 34.13%. Obesity prevalence was highest in ‘gun’, and lowest in ‘gu’ area. In the overall model, sociodemographic characteristics including sex ratio (β= 0.26), household income over 3 million won (β= -0.23), and the unemployment (β= -0.18)), high-risk drinking (β= 0.18), and satisfaction with public transportation (β= -0.24) were associated with the prevalence of regional obesity. Other than those things, in ‘si’ area, population density, walking practice, in ‘gun’ area, participation in social activity were associated with the prevalence of regional obesity.Conclusions: To reduce obesity prevalence and it’s regional disparities, it is important to make intervention and prevention efforts taking into account the socioeconomic and physical environmental characteristics of the region as well as health behaviors.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting the Validity of Self-Reported Data on Health Services from the Community Health Survey in Korea

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 1040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyeongsu Kim ◽  
Kunsei Lee ◽  
Sounghoon Chang ◽  
Gilwon Kang ◽  
Yangju Tak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Community Health Survey ◽  
Reported Data

scholarly journals Characteristics and factors affecting the job satisfaction of community health survey interviewers

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Seong-Bin Park ◽  
Young-Taek Kim ◽  
Jeong-Mi Lee ◽  
Young-Hoon Lee ◽  
Gyung-Jae Oh
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Community Health Survey

scholarly journals Does Young Adults’ Neighborhood Environment Affect Their Depressive Mood? Insights from the 2019 Korean Community Health Survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1269
Author(s):  
Da-Hye Yim ◽  
Youngsang Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Depressive Mood ◽  
Neighborhood Environment ◽  
Safety Level ◽  
Neighborhood Conditions ◽  
Community Health Survey

The rates of depression among young adults have been increasing in high-income countries and have emerged as a social problem in South Koreans aged 19–34. However, the literature is unclear on whether the neighborhood environment that young adults live in affects the onset and severity of their depressive symptoms. This study analyzed data from the 2019 Korean Community Health Survey (KCHS) using the Tobit model to identify the effect of the neighborhood environment on young adults’ depressive moods. Controlling for other corresponding factors, young adults’ neighborhood environment satisfaction affected their depression, and natural environment satisfaction (32.5%), safety level satisfaction (31.0%), social overhead capital (SOC), environment satisfaction (30.2%), trust between neighbors satisfaction (20.1%), and public transportation environmental satisfaction (12.2%) affected young adults’ depressive moods. Of these, natural environment satisfaction (32.5%), safety level environment satisfaction (31.0%), and SOC environment satisfaction (30.2%) affected young adults’ depressive mood to a similar extent. This implies that many young adults in South Korea live in inadequate neighborhood conditions. This research contributes to the literature by identifying the specific environmental factors that affect young adults’ depressive moods.

scholarly journals Relationship between Obesity and Eating Rate: Analyzing the Korean Community Health Survey Data

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heui Sug Jo ◽  
Su Mi Jung ◽  
Yuliya Dronina
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Obesity Management ◽  
Eating Rate ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Community Health Survey ◽  
Health Survey Data

Abstract Background: The obesity rate has increased in South Korea as a result of changing dietary habits and decreasing physical activity. This study aimed to evaluate the relationships between eating rate and obesity.Methods: Multiple logistic regression analyses were conducted using raw data of the Korean Community Health Survey 2017 for the Gangwon Province and nationwide data to evaluate the relationships between eating rate and obesity.Results: Among men, the major factor affecting obesity was an eating rate of ≤ 20 min (odds ratio = 1.17 (1.03, 1.33); P < 0.01). In case of women, factors affecting obesity were an eating rate of ≤ 20 min (odds ratio = 1.15 (1.02, 1.29); P < 0.05), and irregular mealtimes (odds ratio = 1.16 (1.03, 1.30); P < 0.05).Conclusion: Implementing simple strategies to improve dietary and lifestyle habits may assist in weight and obesity management. These findings may provide useful strategies for future developing a culture-oriented approach to obesity management.

scholarly journals Study on construction of comprehensive community health databases through linkage between Community Health Survey data and other community contextual indicators in Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong-Hyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Health Status Indicators ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Health Determinants ◽  
Community Health Survey

IntroductionSince 2008, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have performed nationwide survey, Korea Community Health Survey(K-CHS) annually, to collect information on pervalences of smoking, drinking, physical activity, obesity, diet, oral health, and other health-related activities among randomly selected community-dwelling residents aged 19 years or over in ~250 administrative districts(Si-gun-gu). Objectives and ApproachThis study aims to build comprehensive data library through leakage of area-based data collected from K-CHS and other community contextual health indicators from various government databases. For this purpose, we reviewed other databanks on community status health indicators comprehensively and tried to search linkage information from the related national public database. ResultsWe reviewed the community health model, which is theoretically and empirically proven in other studies and tried to propose health determinants of community health through population health perspectives. We collected information on health outcomes of each community, measured by overall mortality and self-rated health. We also assessed health determinants, measured in five domains including social network, health behaviors, clinical care, social and economic factors, and physical environment. Childhood environment was dealt briefly. Geo-coded data on selected core indicators were collected for each domain and the validity, reliability, sensitivity, and robustness of these measures was evaluated. We constructed comprehensive databases through linkage of health outcomes and health determinants. We also suggested summary sheet template, comprizing comprehensive community health status indicators. Conclusion/ImplicationsIn conclusion, we anticipate evidence-based community health intervention and evaluation of its performance through utilizing comprehensive databases on community health.

Socio-demographic and geographic analysis of overweight and obesity in Canadian adults using the Canadian Community Health Survey (2005)

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
J. Slater ◽  
C. Green ◽  
G. Sevenhuysen ◽  
B. Edginton
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Canadian Community Health Survey ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Obesity Prevalence ◽  
Community Health Survey

Abstract Using the 2005 Canadian Community Health Survey, this study examined how overweight and obesity in Canadian adults are distributed across socio-demographic and geographic groupings. Overweight and obesity prevalence were modeled against socio-demographic indicators using Poisson regression and were assessed geographically using choropleth maps. The Gini coefficient was used to assess the distribution of prevalence across risk groups. The potential impacts of high risk versus population-based prevention approaches on the population prevalence of obesity were also examined. Of adults aged 25 to 64 years, 17% were obese and 53% were overweight or obese, with the highest proportions observed in older age groups, among those who were physically inactive, white or non-immigrant, with low educational levels, and living in the prairie and east coast regions. Recalculation of obesity rates under the different prevention scenarios demonstrated that population-based approaches could achieve a four-fold greater decrease in obesity cases than high risk approaches, highlighting the need for broader population strategies for obesity prevention in Canada.

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