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KMID : 0371019990320030355
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Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
1999 Volume.32 No. 3 p.355 ~ p.360
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Self-Rating Perceived Health
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Kweon Sun-Seog
Kim Sang-Yong
Im Jeong-Soo
Sohn Seok-Joon
Choi Jin-Su
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Abstract
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Objectives : This 3-year longitudinal study was conducted to evaluate the influence of self-rating health perception on health care utilization and all cause-death risk.
Methods : The hypothesis was tested using a community-based samples, among which subjects 3,414 were interviewed in 1995. Self-rating health perception was assessed by single-item question. Three components of health care utilization amount(number of visits, number of medications, yearly health care expenses) per year were measured using medical insurance data during 3-year follow-up period among subjects in district health care insurance. There were 123 deaths from all causes among 3,085 subjects interviewed.
Results : The results showed that those who had poor health perception revealed more increases in the amount of health care utilization than good health perception group(p<0.05). After adjusting for age and sex, the poor health perception group had higher death risk over 3 years than good health perception group(hazard ratio=1.88). but, after adjusting health care utility, supplementary, was not significant.
Conclusion : These results suggest that self-rating health perception was associated with difference in health care utilization and all cause-death risk.
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KEYWORD
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Health perception, Death risk, Health care utilization, Longitudinal study
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