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Sex Role Effects on Female Response to Illness
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- Issue Date
- 1990-12
- Citation
- Korea Journal of Population and Development, Vol.19 No.2, pp. 135-155
- Abstract
- In order to advance understanding of the complex social process of individual
health behavior, this study examined the differentials of health status and healch
service utilization by men and women among rural Koreans. Using National
Health Survey data collected in 1981, we tested the hypothesis that different sex
role expectations would lead different health-related behaviors for men and
women.
The results show that women in rural Korea feel less healthy than men in terms
of perceived morbidity factors, while they have relatively unfavorable experiences
in the level of health service utilization and the types of service facilities they used. These results are interpreted to confirm that women's health behavior is a reflection of their situation as women. In the case of the sample population, the strong patriarchal tradition seems to put an extra-burden on women and thus demand more strict female roles from them in rural Korea.
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- English
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