The Study On Health Status Of Doctoral Supervisors In Shandong University

BackgroundShandong University is a "national key comprehensive university" of China which directly under the Ministry of Education. It is also listed among the 21 national key construction first-class universities by the Ministry of Education. It cultivates a lot of talents to nation annually and contributes significantly to the economic development and scientific advancement of China. Tutors of doctoral candidates are top intellectuals, if they were laid aside by illness or died at an early age, the loss would be enormous. Consequently it is of great significance to strengthen the research on health related problems on tutors of doctoral candidates, to step in the health intervention and promotion and eventually improve their health status.ObjectivesTo cognize and evaluate the health status of tutors of doctoral candidates in Shandong university and to find out the trend and movement of several high incidence diseases. A summarized analysis and discussion was processed to factors may inducing the diseases. Preventive and health care advices were put forward according to research results which may improve the health status of tutors.Source and MethodsThe source is from the data of physical check-up of tutors of doctoral candidates in the past years. The check-up items include general examination, X-rays, B-UltraSonography, liver function, kidney function and so on. The tutors who have the symptoms in the elementary examination should make further check-up such as CT or MR. The results were registered and concluded and were analyzed by SPSS 13.0.Main Results1. In Shandong university, male tutors account for 86.09 percents, female tutors account for 13.91 percents; The number of young tutor is the most; tutors between 41 to 50 years old accounts for 46.63 percents. The average age of tutors has decreased gradually in the past years.2. In living habits aspect, the proportion of drinking is 60.81 percents of male, the proportion of smoking is 27.08 percents of male, which are significantly higher than that of female; in exercise and sport aspects, the proportion that usually exercise is 22.09 percents; In diet habit aspect, the young tutors usually eat meat and fish, while old tutors usually eat insipidity food; In weight aspect, 55.83 percents were overweighed and the rate gradually ascend as age increases.3. In the check-up results, there are 47 kinds of ailments found. The kind of ailments of male is more than that of female; the tutors who have more than 2 kinds of ailments are in the majority. The first five diseases in the sequence of male are prostate diseases, gastritis, hepatic adipose, high blood lipid and hypertension. The first five diseases in the sequence of female are gastritis, high blood lipid, hepatic adipose, uterine leiomyoma and hypertension.4. The incidence rate of some common diseases differs significantly from different specialty. The incidence rate of common diseases of tutors in art in the most, the incidence rate of high blood lipid, gastritis and prostate diseases of tutors in medicine is the lowest, the incidence rate of common diseases of tutors in science is intermediate.5. By the analysis of the incidence rate of several common diseases of tutors, a trend in incidence rate was discovered. Several common diseases except gastritis has gradually increased and the incidence rate of prostates diseases in male tutors increased the most.Conclusions and SuggestionThis research indicates that the health status of tutor of doctoral candidates was hardly optimistic. Several measures were proposed to guarantee tutors' mental and physical health. 1. More propaganda and education should be strengthened. 2. Go on with the physical check-up of tutors and add more check-up items. 3. A health tracing and intervention system should be set up gradually to effectively intervene the health related risks. 4. Some essential condition and facilities should be provided to improve the working and living conditions and to alleviate tutors' working stress. 5. A health care clinic should be opened to provide systematic treatments for the ailments discovered in the physical check-up.