A Study of Statistical Science of Multidimensional Association on Health and Culture

本研究使用的数据来自于2003年在这些国家或地区进行的全国性的面对面访谈调查。目标人群是每个国家或地区20岁及以上的成年人。样本选取采用分层多阶段抽样法。与健康相关的项目有健康满意度、自评健康和健康感知。这些调查结果总结在报告中。通过多维度数据分析，对性别、年龄、受教育程度、收入、人际关系对信任、焦虑等社会文化因素的影响程度进行调查。分析睡眠障碍对健康满意度的影响，并根据年龄、性别、文化程度和收入水平进行调整。结果表明，在跨文化差异的框架中调整其他社会文化因素后，七个国家的调查结果证明信任态度与健康满意度相关。一项多变量逻辑分析显示，显著影响健康不满的社会人口特征因国家而异，包括日本的年龄较大和教育水平较低，以及韩国的女性和中等收入水平。台湾地区未选择自变量。在这三个亚洲国家，睡眠障碍与对健康的不满密切相关，并因社会和人口因素而有所不同。

The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between culture, health, and social factors in cross-cultural comparison of the three countries in the East Asia : Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. The data used in the present study were collected from nation-wide face to face interviewing surveys conducted in these countries or area in 2003. The target population was adults aged 20 years and older in each country or area. The sample was selected by the stratified multi-stage sampling method. Items related to health were on satisfaction of health, self-rated health, and health perception. These survey results were summarized in reports. Those related to social and cultural factors such as gender, age, education, income, interpersonal relations to trust, and anxiety were investigated by multidimensional data analysis. The effect of sleep disorder to health satisfaction was also analyzed adjusting by age, gender, education level and income level.The results showed that the attitude to trust proved to be related to health satisfaction after adjusting other social and cultural factors in the frame of inter-cultural difference by the seven countries surveys. A multivariate logistic analysis showed that the sociodemographic characteristics that significantly influenced health dissatisfaction varied among nations-including older age and low education level in Japan and female gender and middle-income level in South Korea. No independent variables were selected in Taiwan. Sleep disorders are closely linked to health dissatisfaction in the three Asian countries, with variation according to social and demographic factors.