In Korea, the position of health among the sectors of everyday life lies behind the others. The inhabitants don´t consider health so "important and immediate as food and shelter. Primarily, it seemed more important for .them to eat something and to educate their children than to secure health.
Under this situations we must take into consideration their health status and health problems in terms of the social system. Health cannot be maintained by itself. It interacts with a set of social conditions such as income, knowledge about health, health institution, health insurance, social class, culture and etc. But the community health projects which have carried out in Korea since the beginning of 1970s focused mainly on the medical care and medical delivery itself regardless the background of health care.
According to the existing results of socio epidemiological and medico-sociological. researches, a set of social conditions has a great effect on the inhabitants´ health status and health care.
So, such conditions will be considered primarily in Korea University Health Project. This paper is prepared as a preliminary step for such a program. In this paper we mainly inquired into the relationship between health and the attitudes of inhabitants.
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