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Determinant Factors of Agricultural Resident’s Self-Rated Health: In the Area of Lyamungu in Africa Tanzania

  • Journal of Regional Studies and Development
  • Abbr : JRSD
  • 2017, 26(2), pp.123-144
  • Publisher : Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Development: IPAID
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > Regional Studies in general > Comparative / Statistical Regional Studies
  • Published : August 30, 2017

Chang-Hyon Jo 1 Chung, Moo-Kwon 1

1연세대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study aims to analyze the determinant factors of subjective health perception of residents by surveying the self-rated questionnaire about own health at the agricultural area of Lyamungu in Tanzania, to provide the basic data about their health, and to give the implications in the programme and project of ODA for the enhancing the health promotion. This survey was conducted with 150 householders selected randomly among about 3,600 householders in Lyamungu Province. The questionnaires about the subjectively perceptive health (named as the self-rated health) were categorized by socio-demography, economic status, healthcare, and illness of the residents. The hierarchical logistic regression was performed for finding the significant variables. In the crosstab analysis, gender, number of family, number of meal, exercise, smoking, drinking, chronicle disease, medical service experience are significant to the subjective perception of health(sig.<.05). In the regression, width of cultivated land, career duration of agricultural work, exercise, healthcare education, drinking, number of meal, diarrhea experience are significant(sig.<.05). According to the results, to promote the self-rated health in the agricultural area of Lyamungu, Tanzania government should provide the advanced health programmes about consideration of woman’s health, promotion of exercise, restraint of drinking, delivery of meal, prevention of diarrhea, and health education enhancing the positive effect to subjective health. Healthcare service program is necessary to those who cultivate the land of under 1 hector or during 21-30 years.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.