Socioeconomic disparities in behavioral risk factors and health outcomes by gender in the Republic of Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few studies have examined socioeconomic disparities in health and behavioral risk factors by gender in Asian countries and in South Korea, specifically. We investigated the relationship between socioeconomic position (education, income, and occupation) and subjective and acute and chronic health outcomes and behavioral risk factors by gender, and compared results from 1998 and 2005, in the Republic of Korea.

Methods

We examined data from a nationally representative stratified random sample of 4213 men and 4618 women from the 1998 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, and 8289 men and 8827 women from the 2005 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey using General Linear Modeling and multiple logistic regression methods.

Results

SUBMITTER: Kim HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2867999 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature