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KMID : 0379720140280020200
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Journal of Korean Community Health Nursing Academic Society
2014 Volume.28 No. 2 p.200 ~ p.210
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Immigrant Women’s Health Status, Health Behaviors and Health Care Utilization
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Jeong Jin-Young
Shim Moon-Sook
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Abstract
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Purpose: This research is conducted in order to compare health status, health behaviors, and health care utilization between immigrant women and domestic women in South Korea.
Methods: Research subjects comprised of 62 immigrant women living in a rural area of South Korea’ extracted from a survey and health examination conducted during a period from 1st of August in 2013 to 8th of November in 2013 and 214 domestic women extracted from primitive data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 2011. Student t-test, Chi-square test, Mann-Whitney U test, and logistic regression were performed using the SPSS18.0K program for analysis.
Results: Results of comparison between immigrant women and domestic women, showed no difference in obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, anemia, hepatitis B, previous history of tuberculosis, and history of decayed, missing, and filled teeth however, more immigrant women had experienced decayed, missing, and filled teeth compared to domestic women (p<0.001).
Conclusions: Compared to domestic women, Iimmigrant women were more likely to have poor dental health conditions. Therefore, greater efforts is needed in order to solve poor dental health conditions for women.
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KEYWORD
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Immigrants, Health Status, Health Behavior, Health Care
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