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KMID : 1235020130070010001
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Health Service Management Review
2013 Volume.7 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.12
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The Impact of Health behavior, Health status and Healthcare utilization on the Quality of Life of the Baby Boom Generation
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Kim Ki-Hyang
Kim Yong-Min
Jung Tae-Young
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Abstract
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This study investigates the impact of health behavior, health status and healthcare utilization on the quality of life of baby boom generation and suggests the preliminary data for policy development and program to improve the quality of life of the baby boom generation. Among the 3rd preliminary survey data of 2010 KLoSA of Korea Employment Information Service, the data of 2,136 of baby boomers was used to analysis, which has no missing values. For the data analysis, we used SPSS Ver. 20.0. The quality of life shows significant difference to the most variables except for gender, drinking and the number of chronic disease. As respondent is older, the employee insured and has spouse, job, private health insurance, higher education, more annual income, regular meals, better subjective health status, higher ADL ability and higher IADL ability, higher utilization rates of free health screening, more social activities and do exercise regularly, it shows higher quality of life. Meanwhile, as respondent smokes, suffers from depression and has higher number of outpatient and inpatient service utilizations, it shows lower quality of life. According to the Multiple Linear Regression Analysis, age, education level, income level, residential area, marital status, regular excercise, regular meal, smoking, subjective health status, private health insurance purchasing, social activity are influential variables to the quality of life. And among these variables, subjective health status and income level are most influential variables. Based on these results, we suggest political implications of improvement of the quality of life of the baby boom generation. First, there should be internal stabilization of social security system and continuous expansion of job opportunities for the elderly income security. Second, setting the atmosphere for promoting active socal participation of the elderly is necessary. Third, the coverage of national health insurance should be expanded to improve utilizations of healthcare. Fourth, various health promotion programs need to be developed to improve health behaviors. Fifth, social welfare programs which help to maintain a smooth relationship with a spouse are needed.
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KEYWORD
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Baby boomer, Quality of Life, Health status, Health behavior, Healthcare utilization
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