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Chinese Students Physical And Health Status Of Territorial Differentiation,

Posted on:2012-10-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y P ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2207330335471972Subject:Environmental Science
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China is a country with vast territory and large population, because of different geographical information, climate, environment, economic and cultural development level in different region, physical constitution and health status of children and adolescents is not only different between individuals and gender, but also shows different degree of difference among the species, inter-ethnic, regions urban and rural due to many factors, such as genetic and environmental aspects and so on. Many disciplines are concerned about the health of children and adolescents, but the purpose and focus of research is quite different.By literature retrieval and analysis related to medical geography and environmental health fields at home and abroad in recent years, it is found that population health is related to natural science and human science issues, which is one of core research contents in the field of the international geography and environmental science. Geography is comprehensive subjects to study natural and human elements, which has been concerned about the impact of environmental factors on health. In recent years, medical geography research, on the one hand, continue to pay attention to the problems of relationships between environment pollution and human health, on the other hand, it is also particularly concerned about health status of the specific population such as children, adolescents, women, the elderly, and so on.Of which, environmental quality and social development level in different region have large restrictions on human health, life quality and disease spreading. The difference of impact of different geographical environment on the health is very significant, so there have different health problems in different regions. From a global perspective, to improve the health of all mankind, we can not do without this important part of improving the physical condition; from a national perspective, to improve the health of the whole nation, it is bound to base on good development of children and adolescents.Just as Mr.Liang Qichao saying in his famous article called Young China:"today's duty of our nation is not in others, but all in our youth.Only when youth is intellectual can country be intellectual, youth is rich can country be rich, youth is strong can country be strong." For a country and nation, adolescents are the future and hope, it is very important for enhancing the overall quality of young people, demonstrating national spirit and nurturing their hard-working and self-improvement to use appropriate means to improve the physical fitness of young people.Given this background, this paper integrate the geography feature, select some indices that can reflect the physical health of children and adolescents, the data cover 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, which is divided into two groups including primary, middle school, and four categories of urban male, urban female, rural male, rural female, apply SPSS for Windows 17.0 statistical package, and Lotus for data analysis and processing, then use F test to test students in different region whether their differences are statistically significant or not, and finally compare it with the national average by mapping, to further explore the differences among regions.By comparative analysis for monitoring data of physical constitution in 2005 of Chinese students in primary and middle school and found:(1) The overall physical health status of Chinese students in primary and middle school is "The North is good rather than the South", that is to say, the higher the latitude, the greater annual range temperature, the better physical health status.(2) The overall physical health status of Chinese students in primary and middle school is "The East is good rather than the West", that is to say, the higher the longitude, the better physical health status.(3) Among the regions located in a relatively consistent latitude range, the physical health status of Chinese students in primary and middle school is a "Coastal cities are obviously good rather than Inland cities".(4) The physical health status of Chinese students in primary and middle school have significant spatial convergence, students in adjacent areas have similar physical health status and high-concentration state in the space, it shows that geography and natural environment factors play a very larger role in the physical health of students.(5) Overall, most of the eastern coastal regions, the physical health status of Chinese students in primary and middle school is good rather than the Midwest regions, Southwest regions ranked the lowest throughout the country.Finally, by analyzing the possible reasons that cause this distribution pattern of regional differences and urban-rural differences, we can draw a conclusion:the physical health of children and adolescents is not only affected by geographical factors, but also have to do with the level of urban economic development, consumption levels, diet structure, education level and participation and attention of physical education and sports training, and so on. Recommendations have been suggested from many perspective, according to regional conditions, we can change those factors that we can change, by the various government, schools, parents, and students themselves working together, and finally making children and adolescent unbalancely and healthily growth, wishing all the children have a bright future.
Keywords/Search Tags:children and adolescents, physical index, health status, mean comparison, Regional differentiation
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