상병에 관한 사회의학적 연구 - 농촌지역을 중심으로

Abstract

The author conducted a forward survey during 1 year period from September 1, 1962 through August 31, 1963 for the purpose of knowing the morbidity concerning on various sicknesses and injuries among rural population in Korea. In this survey. about 3,000 farm households, narnely, around 20,000 persons were sampled applying area sampling method and 3 interviews each month were conducted at each farm households. It was summarized as follows; 1) Living status; Average farm size per household sampled stands at 2979±830 pyong: Mean housing area and total room area per household were 14.6 ± 12.4 pyong and 3.0±2.7 Kan respectively. The 89.4% of total households were not to read any daily newspaper but 60.7% had radio set. 2) Month-and sex-specific morbidity; In summer morbidity showed in large number among both male and female population, and in autumn least. Compared with the total period of sickness days, days treated were remarkably short. 3) Sick duration; The number of cases per capita during 1 year among whole population was 2.28 in male and 2.22 in female; total sickness days, 70.4 in male and 64.2 in female; bed-rest days, 14.8 in male and 13.0 in female; restricted-activity days 55.6 in male and 51.2 in female; days treated, 11.9 in male and 10.4 in female. 4) Disease-specific morbidity; The diseases of respiratory system were found the highest rate with 24.1% of total number of cases during 1 year observation. and the certain diseases of newborn infants were the lowest with 0.0% 5) Age-specific morbidity; The seasonal variation was high in younger groups and low among senoir group, showing high in spring and fall. 6) The number of cases by farm-size bracket; Seasonal variation was high among samll-size farming households and comparatively low in large-size farming households. 7) The number of cases by educational status; Almost no significant difference was observed between educational level of sicked persons and seasonal occurence of cases.