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KMID : 1812920190010010041
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health
2019 Volume.1 No. 1 p.41 ~ p.52
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Comparison of Health Promotion Lifestyle between Taxi Driver and Bus Driver
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Son Sook-Kyung
Choi Eun-Hi
Jung Hye-Sun
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Abstract
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Purpose : Drivers engaged in transportation business suffer from frequent shift work, overwork, irregular meals, night time shifts, lack of sleep etc, which may give physical and environmental harm to the workers' health, and to be exposed to the early aging, alcoholism, smoking, and lack of exercise etc. Thus this study tries to figure out the characteristics of work in transportation business such as taxi or truck driving, and conduct a comparative study on the health-promoting lifestyles for them.
Methods : This study surveyed the male drivers engaged in the transportation businesses, which consist of 140 taxi drivers and 117 bus drivers.
Results : The respondents showed that the degree of their practice of health-promoting lifestyle is, for taxi drivers, 2.47± 0.25 of 4, for bus drivers, 2.63± 0.29 of 4. As for the self-realization of taxi/bus drivers respectively was 2.69 and 2.93, the physical activities was 2.21 and 2.36. their health was, and the less they felt fatigue, the more they worried about their health.
Conclusion : We need better health-promotional program can raise concerns about the drivers' health and improve their subjective health-perception. Also, it is necessary to lower their fatigue and conduct health-promotional programs.
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KEYWORD
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Health promotion, Life style
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