Standardized Circulatory Disease-Specific Mortality and the Associated Factors by Residential Area

Abstract

In this paper, the purpose was to compare health indicators between urban and rural communities and to investigate the related factors to circulatory disease specific mortality rate using community health and other indicators. Data were collected community health indicators of local districts from Statistics Korea and Community Health Survey 2010. Monthly drinking rate, high risk drinking rate, prevalence of walking over 30 min/day, perceived stress. health checkup, prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, stroke, cardiac infarction, cardiac angina were higher in urban districts than in rural districts, moderate physical activity was higher in rural districts than urban districts. High smoking rate, low prevalence of hyperlipidemia, low financial independence of local government, high experience of health checkup, low prevalence of walking over 30 min per day were associated with cardiovascular mortality in urban area and Received (January 12, 2015), Review request(January 13, 2015), Review Result(January 28, 2015) Accepted(February 17, 2015), Published(April 30, 2015) 690-756 College of Nursing, Jeju National Univ. Jejudaehakro 102, Ara 1 Dong, Jejushi, Jeju, Korea email: eopark@jejunu.ac.kr Standardized Circulatory Disease-Specific Mortality and the Associated Factors by Residential Area Copyright c 2015 HSST 90 54.6% of variance were explained by these factors. High smoking rate, high no. of hospital beds per 1000 population, and high prevalence of myocardiac infarction were related to cardiovascular mortality and 17.8% of variance were explained in rural communities Conclusion: Community health behaviors and other indicators could be influencing factors of community circulatory disease-specific mortality rate. Community health behaviors and other social indicators should be considered when making decisions on health policies and health planning.