This exploratory research introduces the concept of Behavior of Health Maintenance and Promotion, and describes the activities that people perform to maintain and promote their health.
Data from interviews and questionnaires with 512, randomly selected subjects in rural and urban communities from July 6 to Sept. 20, 1989 were analyzed. Of these, 321(62.7%) reported that they had practiced Behavior of Health Maintenance and Promotion.
In content of behavior, 70.1% were food, 24.3% were vitamins and a restorative medicine(herb medication), 4.4% were excercise, and only 1.2% were a periodic health examination.
From a priority order as compare rural with urban communities, food were predominant in rural community, vitamins and exercise were predominant urban community, and a restorative medicine(herb medication) bore almost the resemblance in both communities. Especially, they had favored soup of dog's meat(5.5%), extract juice of dog's meat(2.3%), and soup of snake(0.8%) among food.
Also, higher the economic state, higher the practical behavior was favored. 50.2% of those who indulged in health promotion practiced continuously at regular intervals, and had a tendency to practice steadily.
