아시아 국가들의 주관적 건강상태에 미치는 영향요인 분석

Abstract

This study utilized self-rated health as a method of reducing the deviation between health index and actual health level in Asia. Using the Human Development Index (HDI) score of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), countries were grouped into countries with relatively high health (Group A), middle-level countries (Group B), and countries with relatively low levels of health (Group C), Factors affecting subjective health status for each group with similar health levels were analyzed using the logit model. As an independent variable, psychological, political, economic, social, and environmental factors affecting subjective health were derived using World Values Survey (WVS) data, and the dependent variable was subjective health status. Spatial coverage includes Asian countries, including three Northeast Asian countries, China, Japan, and South Korea, and Southeast Asian countries, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam within the scope of the data. The temporal range corresponds to WVS data Wave 7 from 2017 to 2019. As a result of logistic regression analysis, the variables common to the three groups were life satisfaction and happiness among psychological factors, financial condition satisfaction among economic factors, trust in neighbors among social factors, and medical condition among environmental factors. Group A, which has a relatively high level of health, needs to maintain the psychological and economic factors that have an overall influence, and trust in government, trust in neighbors, group activities, and competition, which are relatively low compared to groups B and C. This suggests that it is necessary to prepare policies to improve awareness and satisfaction with life safety variables. Group B, which has a moderate health index, has to deal with health policies in the direction of maintaining the relatively high level of political and social factors compared to groups A and C. Group C, which has a relatively low health index, has an overall impact. There is a need to improve health policies focusing on psychological and environmental factors that are affecting people's health.