A Study on The Regional Variation Factor of Hypertension Prevalence

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of regional hypertension prevalence and to suggest the direction of health promotion program for hypertension management which is customized by region. To achieve this, we collected data from community health survey, National Statistics Office and National Health Insurance Corporation. As the result of investigating the hypertension prevalence variation level by using the EQ(Extremal Quotient), the variation had occurred. The interregional variation factor of hypertension prevalence was investigated using the geographically weighted regression. The result was shown that the factors which affected the hypertension prevalence were high-risk drinking rate, practice rate of physical activity over moderate level, obesity rate and stress recognition rate. According to the geographically weighted regression, the total of 230 regional regression model composed of major variable which affected the hypertension prevalence was respectively calculated. And this made base-data to be able to customize the hypertension business by region. There are need to enlarge application field to national health promotion such as diabetes management, smoking, drinking and etc. based on this study.