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Original Article Analysis of Community Health Status and Related Factors Using Community Health and Social Indicators
Eun Ok Park

DOI: https://doi.org/
Published online: March 31, 2008
Department of Nursing, Cheju National University, Korea. eopark@cheju.ac.kr
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PURPOSE
The purpose of this paper was to investigate community health status and related factors using community health and social indicators.
METHOD
Data sources were reviewed and data for 10 categories, 75 indicators were collected. Community health status and health-related factors were categorized, and the means and standard deviation of individual indicators were obtained and standardized scores were calculated. In addition, through factor analysis of individual indicators by category using the scores and using the resultant factor coefficients as weights, indexes were calculated by area. Correlation and regression were analyzed.
RESULT
Each indicator was highly correlated with each index, and the indexes were highly correlated with one another. Correlation coefficients were above 0.8 between community health index and population, education, housing, and economy, between population and education, housing and economy, between education and housing and economy, and between housing and economy, environment and industry. But multicollinearity was not found in the result. Significant factors on community health index were population, health personnel and facilities, education, housing and economy, and R-square were 92.4%.
CONCLUSION
Health determinants such as population, health personnel and facilities, education, housing and economy could be influencing factors on community health in community level. These results showed the importance of intersectoral collaboration within a local government. Overall community health can be enhanced by intersectoral collaboration.

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