중년기 남녀의 건강행위와 건강수준 연구 = A Study on Middle Aged Men and Women`s Health Behavior and Health Status

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The midlife in the center of life cycle is a period that could suffer from health problem, such as chronic diseases in accordance with excessive role performance due to the development process. In addition, parents` health behaviors influencing on children and the health status of elderly which will arrive soon for them will be a stage causing remarkable influence on public health costs. Health behavior and health status show a significant difference depending on gender by effects of social structure in addition to health as an attribute with the multidimensionality. The health behavior of middle-aged men and women of the Korean society demonstrate different perception and behavior, respectively, in accordance with typical behaviors such as smoking, drinking and exercising. These different health behaviors depending on men and women could be the major scale in determining their health status. While health status can be classified in various dimensions, depression could be categorized as health dimension in the mental health dimension, chronic diseases and obesity based on subjective health and objective diagnostic criteria.