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KMID : 0377619770330040383
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1977 Volume.33 No. 4 p.383 ~ p.390
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Investigative Study on the Status of Maternal and Child Health
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Abstract
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This survey was conducted to find out the general status of health regarding population, education, religion, family planning and maternal and child health, during the period of a week from 15 to 22 July 1976, through home visit interviews with 170 householders wives residing in hongsung gun, chung nam province.
The results of this survey can be summarized as follows.
1. In the structure of population, the age group of 10 to 19 years old was the highest rate with 29.8% of the total, 0 to 9 with 22.5% was the next and the population is getting decreased gradually as the age is getting increased. The average sex ratio is 103.7 against 100. In the number of households by family size, six persons per household marks the highest with 17.6% and the average population per household is 5. 8 persons.
2. In the educational career of population, graduates from primary school were highest rate with 25. 4,01o, graduated from middle school and high school were 9.2%, 5.5% respectively and ones from college were less than 0.7%. while illiterates were 13.2% and 70.4% of them was female.
Also, as for the educational level of householders, 44.7% of them graduated from primary school and graduates from college was 2.3%, while no attendance marks 12.4%.
3. As for an occupation of the householders, most of them (86.5%) were engaged in agriculture, while clerical workers including-governmental officials were less than 5.3%.
4. With regard to the religion of householders, Buddhist and Christian were
31.8% and 27.0% respectively, while unbelievers were 34.1%.
5. As for the source of knowledge about family planning, 80.6% of householders wives has understood knowledge of family planning through family planning workers, being followed mass communication (12.9%) and physician (1.7%).
6. In practice of family planning, 83.5% of housewives was in practice, however, 18.3% of them was in discontinuation of family planning.
7. Regarding to method of contraception practice by current users, I.U.D. was the most common method with 40.6%, oral pill with 16.8% and vasectomy with 2.4%, however, there was no woman with tubal legation.
8. In ideal number of children, women wanting 4 children were the most with 34.0%, 3 children were next and 2 children were 10%, average number of wanted children was 3.8.
9.. As for abortion of housewives, abortion rate was the highest with 65.9% in survey areas, of them artificial abortion rate was 59.8%.
In the frequencies of abortions, 60 7% of women experienced once, 18.8% twice, 10.7% three times, and 3.5% five times, in decreasing order. Moreover, 10.6% of women experienced still birth and most of them (88.9%) experienced once.
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