Ramírez Rodríguez J C, Uribe Vázquez G, Gutiérrez De la Torre N C
Laboratorio de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Guadalajara.
Salud Publica Mex. 1991 Mar-Apr;33(2):155-65.
The epidemiological studies on women's health, with relation to their geographical distribution (rural and urban), have focused on the areas of fertility and family planning. This work attempts to open up, to a worldwide level of comprehension, the perspectives of the problems related to women's health. It show the results of an investigation of two population groups of women, one in the rural zone, and the other in the urban zone; both groups were from the state of Jalisco, Mexico. The objectives were: to identify the more frequent health problems occurring in women and to establish the similarities and differences between these two female groups. The information was obtained by means of unique interviews using questionnaires. Sociodemographic variables, housing, and sanitation were studied, as well as a health questionnaire which was divided into apparatus and systems. Better sanitary conditions and more favorable sociodemographic indicators were found among women in the urban zone as opposed to those in the rural zone. The most frequent health problems are, in decreasing order, those located in the nervous, digestive, cardiovascular, and genital-urinary systems. There exists a direct relationship between the frequency of health problems and age. Generally, the women most affected are those in the rural zone. It is difficult to establish comparisons with the health conditions of women in other areas due to lack of research that makes differentiations with regard to sex (in this case, those focusing on women). We consider it of interest to continue with insightful investigations of chronic, degenerative, and deficiency problems, as well as those related to self-attention.
关于女性健康与其地理分布（农村和城市）关系的流行病学研究主要集中在生育和计划生育领域。这项工作试图在全球理解层面上开拓与女性健康相关问题的视角。它展示了对两组女性人群的调查结果，一组来自农村地区，另一组来自城市地区；两组均来自墨西哥哈利斯科州。目标是：确定女性中更常见的健康问题，并找出这两组女性之间的异同。信息通过使用问卷进行的独家访谈获得。研究了社会人口统计学变量、住房和卫生设施，以及一份分为器官和系统的健康问卷。与农村地区的女性相比，城市地区的女性有更好的卫生条件和更有利的社会人口统计学指标。按出现频率递减排序，最常见的健康问题位于神经、消化、心血管和生殖泌尿系统。健康问题的频率与年龄之间存在直接关系。一般来说，受影响最大的是农村地区的女性。由于缺乏按性别区分（在这种情况下是关注女性）的研究，很难将这些女性的健康状况与其他地区的女性进行比较。我们认为继续深入研究慢性、退行性和营养缺乏问题以及与自我关注相关的问题很有意义。
