長壽村의 健康管理에 關한 硏究 : 慶南 南海郡 및 巨濟郡을 中心으로 Especially in Namhaekun and Geojekun, Kyongnam = A Study on the Health Care in the Districts of Longevity

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study aims to research on the actual state of health care of the aged people who are from Namhaekun and Geojekun, Kyongnam, which are the districts famous for longevity. The aged people we selected randomly for this study consist of 359 men and 851 women who are all over 65 years old. The period of research was from October through November, 1982.
The main results of thisstudy are summarized as follows:
1. As for their past occupations, most of them were farmers (men: 87.8%; women: 92.7%). The rest of them used to be engaged in fishing, public work, commerce, industry, etc.
2. Currently many of them are still engaged in farming (men: 61.5%; women: 42.9%), and some are helping the domestic chores (men: 15.9%; women: 32.3%). The rest of them (men: 18.2%; women: 21.0%) answered that they are doing nothing particular.
3. As for their staple foods, themajority of them (72.6%) eat mixed food of rice and barley, and the rest eat rice(16.1%) or minor-grain mixed rice(11.3%). As subsidiary foods, themost common is vegetables (72.8%). The other subsidiary foods they usually take are fish(22.3%), sea weeds92.6%), and meat(1.3%).
4. Many of them take special health foods to maintain their health(men: 58.0%, women: 40.5%). The health foods they usually take are, in case of men, tonic liquor (13.7%) and ginseng or antlers (10.9%). In case of women honey (11.6%) and tonic liquor (9.4%) are the most common. Most of them take health food not frequently (52.1%). Those who take frequently are only 19.8%. There are some(14.5%) taking health food seasonally. The rest of them(13.6%) have been taking health food for a long time.
5. Most of the men(86.6%) and many of the women (56.5%) enjoy smoking, mostly half a pack a day. Many of the men (62.8%) and some of the women (25.9%) enjoy drinking.
6. Not many of them take regular exercises (men: 31.7%, women: 18.2%).
7. Almost half of them (40.9%) take medical examinations, but not regualrly. The percentage of those who take regualr examinations is considerably low(6.1%). The remedies they usually take are Chinese treatment (43.6%), folk treatment (26.4%), and western treatment(22.1%).
8. the percentage of those who do not have subjective symptons yet is low (men: 32.4%, women: 25.6%). The most common geriatric disease that they suffer is neuralgia (men: 42.5%, women: 50.6%).
9. The ages of their parents and grandparents at the time of death are generally high 9Father: 74±14.6, Mother: 75.8±14.6, Grandfather: 73.3±12.7, grandmother: 73.2±6.5).
10. Many of them(68.4%) answered that they have no worries in life. The common worries that they have, in case of those who answered `yes', are family trouble (15.6%), being without work (7.0%), and indifference of family (6.4%).
11. Their subjective judgements of the secrets of health are various: care of nutrition (27.1%), mental health (17.8%), well-regulated life (10.8%), and moderate exercises (10.3%).
12. Most of them want to be served with various medical benefits and rest places. There are some anticipating medical education for aged people.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 緖 論
• Ⅱ. 調査方法
• Ⅲ. 調査成績 및 考察
• 1. 調査對象者의 年齡 및 職業
• 2. 食生活
• 3. 嗜好品
• 4. 健康管理
• 5. 遺傳傾向
• 6. 健康과 長壽秘訣 및 要望事項
• Ⅳ. 結 論
• 參考文獻
• Summary