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This study which applies to the 403 healthy people who don’’t have particular diseases recently(193 urban aged. 210 rural aged) among male and female aged over 60 years old living in Daegu(city) and Gyungbook(agricultural village) is fulfilled from November 1st to December 31st by interview using the questioned paper which researcher developed, and reached to these tallowing conclusions. 1. Every aged men independent of the place residence answered positively yes but aged women had weak assurance of their health. Especially 38.6% of rural aged women said yes and 51.4% of rural aged women said no. 2. In the sleep and well-regulated life, urban and rural aged generally marked on the sound sleep. Compared with male and female, men answered they had better sleep and regulated life than women. 3. The percentage of the urban and rural aged’’s judgement on their activity was high and the percentage of the rural aged was lower than the percentage of the urban aged. 4. While 62.6% of urban aged answered they were active. 38.6% of rural female aged answered yes, This shows that the rural female aged regard their health is not good. 5. Compared with same generation. urban aged ranked lower than urban aged in the confidence of physical strength. Especially rural need women answered 42.1% of them were weaker than the same generation. This shows that rural aged women don’’t have confidence in general physical activities. 6. Taking exercises three times a week which can influence on health cue to sixties and seventies aged ranked 26.1%, rarely do is 18.8% and never do is 28.8%. Urban and rural aged do not exercise on the purpose of health. 7. The reason of exercise was to advance the physical strength and quality of motion(34.9%) to get rid of stress(13.4%) and to prevention of adult illness(27.8%), prevention of fatness(15.3%). Aged have a correct understanding that exercise can promote health and protect from the diseases of adult people because the items about the diseases of adult people was marked high. 8. Among the subject of total investigation, 209 persons answered. It showed necessary to recognize that the exercise is still important essential part between adult illness and health care. 9. The 67.7% of urban aged men answered yes in the question of undergoing a physical examination but the rate of not undergoing a physical examination was high in rural aged and urban aged women. According to this, there were the difference of consciousness about health between urban and rural aged. and men and women. 10. Among the people who haying undergone the physical examination, 80.3% of the aged went back to the hospital again because of the result. 11. In the case of stroke, most aged answered the would be placed under medical care. but 53.9% of rural aged women answered they would rely on Chinese medicine. According to this. aged preferred Chinese medicine in some particular diseases. 2. The 58.1% of whole object of this study answered that stroke would be recovered.
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