한국노인의 신체적 건강과 사회인구요인

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study examined physical health and the effects of sociodemographic factors on the medical, functional, and self-evaluative dimensions of physical health in Korean elders through secondary data analysis by using structural equation modelling technique. Those older elderly experienced more functional limit after controlling for the effects of gender, education, marital status, and chronic condition. When functional limit was controlled for together with these factors, older elderly had better self-evaluated health than the younger elderly. More educated elderly had less functional limit when age, gender, marital status, and chronic conditon were controlled for. Thses elderly also had better self-evaluated health than their counterparts under the control of functional limit in additon to those controlled factors. However, gender and marital status did not exert a significant effect on any dimension of physical health. Under the control of the sociodemographic factors, chronic condition had a positive effect on functional limit, whereas it had a negative effect on self-evaluated health. Functional limit had also a negative effect on self-evaluated health when the sociodemographic factors and chronic condition were controlled for. Suggestions were made in regard to providing support to those families living with elders and adopting various levels of each dimension of physical health. It was also suggested to use multivariate analysis technique in health services researches.