The risk factors of health formation in urban and rural women

Abstract

The purpose of the study is the socio-hygienic characteristics of the lifestyle and living conditions of urban and rural women and the assessment of their importance in the formation of health. The materials of the study were: the number of newly registered chronic diseases for 5 years, the average number of complaints about diseases during the year, the results of the survey. A socio-hygienic study shows that among urban women there are more divorced women than among rural women, fewer widows, urban women have higher levels of education, more permanent jobs, low physical activity, etc. Rural women were distinguished from urban women by lower level of education, low medical activity, frequent alcohol consumption, lower income, etc. Among urban women, more than in the first health assessment group (18.4% of women), among rural women 14.6% and less than in the third health assessment group (30.2%). Among rural women, 36.0% were in the third health assessment group. It was found that the greatest impact on the health of urban women have irrational nutrition, low physical activity, low medical activity, harmful production factors, frequent stress at work and at home, on the health of rural women: low income, low medical activity, mainly physical labor, irrational nutrition, frequent alcohol consumption.