Saeed Bashiru I I, Abdul-Aziz A R, Nguah Samuel Blay, Zhao Xicang
JIANGSU UNIVERSITY.
Glob J Health Sci. 2013 Jun 16;5(5):124-30. doi: 10.5539/gjhs.v5n5p124.
The article here investigated the impact of Preventive Health Behaviors and Risk Factors as measures of Health Status of Ghanaians. We carry out a cross-sectional analysis of 5573 adults who participated and had indicated that they needed to state their health description in the three years prior to the phase 2007 World Health Organization, a study on Global Ageing and Adult health (SAGE) conducted in Ghana. The ordinal logistic regression model was employed for analysis using R. The results suggest that, there is incontrovertible evidence showing a strong relationship between preventive health behaviors and health status of Ghanaians. Again, the lifestyle of Ghanaians clearly manifests in their positive correlation with the good and moderate health state due to the high percentage (38.96% and 39.04%) respectively. The outcome points to a potential link with the Ghanaian social and health policies.
本文研究了预防健康行为和风险因素对加纳人健康状况的影响。我们对5573名成年人进行了横断面分析，这些人参与了2007年第二阶段世界卫生组织在加纳开展的一项关于全球老龄化与成人健康的研究（SAGE），并表示他们需要说明自己在三年前的健康状况。使用R软件采用有序逻辑回归模型进行分析。结果表明，有确凿证据显示预防健康行为与加纳人的健康状况之间存在密切关系。此外，加纳人的生活方式与良好和中等健康状态呈正相关，这一点在他们的生活方式中明显体现出来，分别占比很高（38.96%和39.04%）。研究结果指出了与加纳社会和卫生政策的潜在联系。
