Journal of agricultural medicine and community health (농촌의학ㆍ지역보건)

Korean Society for Rural Medicine and Community Health (한국농촌의학지역보건학회)
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Effect of Residential Environment on the Health Status in Apartment Inhabitants

아파트 주민의 건강상태에 거주 환경이 미치는 영향

  • Kang, Ki-Won (Dept. of Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kim, Hwa-Joon (Dept. of Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kwon, Geun-Yong (Dept. of Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University) ;
  • Jung, Min-Soo (Dept. of Medical Sociology, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University)
  • 강기원 (서울대학교 보건대학원 예방의학교실) ;
  • 김화준 (서울대학교 보건대학원 예방의학교실) ;
  • 권근용 (서울대학교 보건대학원 예방의학교실) ;
  • 정민수 (서울대학교 보건대학원 보건사회학교실)
  • Published : 2009.12.31
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Abstract

Objectives: WHO insisted on that we should study about association between residential environment and health status and make 'health city' concept as practical motto. This study analyzed about that how community environment affected their health. Methods: We surveyed residential environment satisfaction and health status of a apartment complex residents. We transformed Chun's index about housing environment study and social capital index of WHO and used as community health survey. We analyzed the association between health status and related factor by using principal compound analysis and logistic regression analysis. Results: We found out that the perceived health status 1 years ago was highly related to the residential environment and also extracted five residential environment component (APT maintenance, House, APT complex, Neighbor, APT building) by principal component analysis. After residential environment component, demographic and socioeconomic variable were controlled, the high satisfaction group of APT complex and neighbor relationship was in lower risk of perceived health status 1 years ago than the low satisfaction group. Conclusions: Recently, the importance of residential environment and neighborhood is shaped as community capacity. Therefore, social relationship and residential environment should be the core variable for health promotion of community. After all, we should know the relationship of residential environment and perceived health status 1 years ago. This helps the concept of health city clearly.

이 연구는 우리나라 대표적 주거형태인 아파트 입주민들을 대상으로 입주자들의 주거환경 만족도와 관련이 높은 건강상태 변수가 무엇인지 밝히고 어떠한 주거환경이 건강상태에 영향을 주는지 평가하고자 하였다. 주거환경에 대한 설문조사는 사회자본에 대한 국제적인 조사도구인 SC-IQ를 바탕으로 하되 Chun[2]의 아파트 주거환경 조사척도를 첨가하였다. 설문조사는 2007년 12월부터 2008년 1월까지 7주간 이루어졌으며, 조사방법은 사전조사 차원을 통해 반응도 및 수거율 등을 고려하여 2회에 걸쳐 수행되었다. 수집된 설문지는 총 276부로서 수거율은 28%였으며 이 중 6부는 변수의 결측값이 많아 제거하여 총 270부의 설문지를 대상으로 분석을 시행하였다. 주성분 분석을 통해 기존에 알려진 주거환경과 관련된 건강관련 변수들 중에 1년 전 대비 주관적 건강상태 변수가 가장 관련도가 높음을 파악했고, 요인 회전 및 요인 추출을 통해 27가지 주거환경 만족도에 대한 문항을 5가지 요인들로 구분할 수 있었다. 여기서 요인 1은 아파트 관리와 관련된 요인으로 요인 2는 아파트 개별 가구 환경과 관련된 요인으로 요인 3은 아파트 단지 환경(근린)과 관련된 요인으로 요인 4는 이웃관계와 관련된 요인으로 요인 5는 아파트 단지 시설환경과 관련된 요인이었다. 로지스틱 회귀분석의 결과를 보면, 주거환경 요인 중 이웃관계 관련 요인 및 아파트단지 시설환경 요인의 경우 만족도가 높을수록 1년 대비 주관적 건강상태가 양호 하지만, 아파트단지 환경(근린) 관련 요인은 만족도가 낮은 경우가 1년 전 대비 주관적 건강상태에 안 좋은 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 이것은 근린공간 및 이와 결합되어 있는 사회적 지지 변수가 건강이 악화되는 것을 방지한다는 '완충효과' 이론을 입증하는 결과이다. 결국 이 연구는 주거환경이 건강의 악화방지에 영향을 주는 요인일 수 있음을 밝히고 기존에는 고려되지 못한 물리적이고 정서적인 주거환경과 건강과의 관련성을 제시했다는 데에 그 의의가 있다.

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