만성질환 유병 수와 사회경제적 조건관계 분석: 중고령자 = The Relationship between Socioeconomic Conditions and Number of Chronic Diseases in Mid- and Old-aged Persons

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

About sixty percent of the decease, which were 56 million, was due to chronic diseases around the globe. It will be escalated as the population ages. With the higher rate of chronic diseases, Korea has been experiencing the aging population so that it is necessary to examine the factor which affects chronic diseases. There have been many researches on linking socioeconomic context to individual health. This article expands the previous researches on including labor conditions as the socioeconomic factors and then examines the effect of socioeconomic factors on number of chronic diseases in mid- and old-aged persons. Using the data of Korea Longitudinal Study of Ageing, negative binomial regression is conducted. The result shows that the average working hours (per week) has the statistically significant, positive effect on number of chronic disease. Other than that, females and relatively older individuals tend to have more chronic diseases. In conclusion the average working hours should be managed more systematically, and the health management system for overtime workers is needed to take better care of their health. These, as a result, contribute to have lower morbidity rate of chronic diseases.