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KMID : 0904520100280010061
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Health and Medical Sociology
2010 Volume.28 No. 1 p.61 ~ p.90
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Social Capital, Physical Activity, and Self-reported Health: A Structural Equation Modeling and Implications for Evidence-based Health Policy
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Kim Jun-Hong
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to explore evidences needed to set policy objectives for physical activity promotion in Korea using data of Leisure Time and Sports collected by International Social Survey Programme in 2007. For this purpose, the study reviewed pre-existing evidences regarding the relationships among social capital, physical activity, and level of subjective(self-reported) health and extended them to the analysis of the current data. Focusing on the role of social capital(social participation and trust) reinforcing physical activity to promote level of health, this study showed that social participation had a direct and a indirect effect on level of health. Trust had only a direct effect. Physical activity played mediating role in affecting self-reported health in regards with social participation. These results gave evidences for enhancing social capital to promote the level of health. Other research finding was that physical activity only composed of quantitative index such as frequency or intensity of exercise did not have significant effect on the level of health, but physical activity composed of quantitative and qualitative indices had significant effect. These results gave evidences to reorient policy objectives into integrating quantitative and qualitative objectives in health policy for promoting level of physical activity. In general, structural equation modelling of social capital, physical activity, and self-reported health was validated.
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KEYWORD
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New Health Plan 2010, Evidence, Social Capital, Physical Activity, Subjective Health, Structural Equation Modeling
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