Studies based on social environments and their impact on the health conditions of women have been less frequently conducted compared to studies on the correlation between biological settings and women’s health condition.
Therefore, this research has two goals. he first is to examine the relationship between subjective and objective health conditions to ascertain how important subjective health condition may be for women’s health.
The second is to examine the relationship between social environment and subjective health condition among women by means of longitudinal data.
This research made use of the Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Family (KLoWF), and Kaplan-Meier analysis and Cox regression analysis were employed for data examination.
This study confirmed the fact that subjective health condition and objective health conditions treated by a medical doctor are highly correlated.
Those with unfavorable social environments are likely to experience their health condition shifting from being good to being bad at an earlier age than are their counterparts in their life course.
The findings in this study could have critical policy implications in terms of improved prevention strategies against diseases for women with unfavorable social environments.
