Study On The Self-rated Health Status Of The Adults And Its Influencing Factors In Liaoning Province

ObjectiveHealth is not merely the absence of disease and disability,and it's the good condition of the physical,psychological and social function.Self-rated health is an indicator combining subjective and objective,and it can reflect the health condition of the population.Self-rated health is a measure of health,which is associated with mortality,health care utilization and future health.In this study,we investigated the health status,demographic characteristics,life style,objective health and sociological characteristics of adults in Liaoning province,analyze the status and influencing factors of adult self-rated health,the changes of self-rated health in the different population.It can help provide evidence for the government to make health decisions,collocate medical resources and carry out the health service,improve the level of people's health and quality of life,at the same time it can provide meaningful results.MethodsOn the basis of the outcomes of the research on the self-rated health of the adults from both home and abroad.Based on data of study in 2012-2014,Chinese Family Panel Studies implemented by Institute of Social Science Survey of Peking University,the age of 16 and older adults were selected in Liaoning as the research object.Descriptive statistics and ordinal Logistic regression analysis were conducted on the self-rated health of adults.Specifically,from the demographic characteristics,lifestyle factors,objective health,socioeconomic factors and other aspects of the Liaoning Province,the health of adults and their influencing factors were analyzed.On the basis of single factor analysis,analyzed the main factors influencing the self-rated health of adults in Liaoning province by Logistic regression.The data of adults Liaoning Province in 2012 and in the year of 2014 were combined to compare the changes of self-rated health.ResultsThe results show that among the adults in Liaoning,people who evaluated their health status as "excellent" accounted for 16.82%,"very good" accounted for 19.83%,"good" accounted for 35.66%,"fair" accounted for10.68%,and "bad" accounted for 17.01%.The results obtained from the single factor analysis,there were significant difference in gender,urban and rural areas,education level,age,marriage,nearly two weeks of illness,whether the doctor saw,chronic disease,whether illness hospitalization,mental health,food,smoking,drinking,lunch,income and self-rated health(P<0.01).There was no significant difference in the self-rated health of physical exercise(P>0.05).Ordinal Logistic regression analysis showed that age,mental health,whether suffering from chronic disease,the severity of the disease,whether or not living in hospital were the effect factors of Self-rated health(P<0.01).People who evaluated their health status as "health" accounted for 67.27%,"fair" accounted for 14.00%,and " bad" accounted for 18.73%in the year of 2012.People who evaluated their health status as "health" accounted for 71.54%,"fair" accounted for 11.09%,and"bad" accounted for 18.73%in the year of 2014.The health self-evaluation of 2014 was better than that in 2012.The results of self-rated health changes between 2012 and 2014 show that 58.02%of people in persistent health for two years;3.79%in general state for two years;10.67%of people in a state of persistent bad for two years;16.05%of the people become better,11.47%become worse.ConclusionsGender,age,mental health status,the prevalence of chronic diseases in the past two weeks,the prevalence of chronic diseases in the past six months,the severity of the disease,and whether or not hospitalized due to illness were the main factors affecting the health self-evaluation..It can be seen from the changes of the health of different groups that the health of the male,the younger,the higher education or the rural people are more stable.