Han Eun Jin, Kang Kiyeon, Sohn So Young
Department of Information and Industrial Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul.
Geospat Health. 2018 May 7;13(1):542. doi: 10.4081/gh.2018.542.
Governments and also local councils create and enforce their own regional public health care plans for the problem of overweight and obesity in the population. Public sports facilities can help these plans. In this paper, we investigated the contribution of public sports facilities to the reduction of the obesity of local residents. We used the data obtained from the Fifth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys; and measured the degree of obesity using body mass index (BMI). We conducted various spatial regression analyses including the global Moran's I test and local indicators of spatial autocorrelation analysis finding that there exists spatial dependence in the error term of spatial regression model for BMI. However, we also observed that the number of local public sports facilities is not significantly related to local BMI. This result can be caused by the low utilization ratio and an unbalanced spatial distribution of local public sports facilities. Based on our findings, we suggest that local councils need to improve the quality of public sports facilities encouraging the establishment of preferred types of pubic sports facilities.
政府以及地方议会针对民众超重和肥胖问题制定并实施各自的地区公共卫生保健计划。公共体育设施有助于这些计划的实施。在本文中，我们调查了公共体育设施对降低当地居民肥胖率的贡献。我们使用了从韩国第五次国民健康与营养检查调查中获得的数据；并使用身体质量指数（BMI）来衡量肥胖程度。我们进行了各种空间回归分析，包括全局莫兰指数检验和局部空间自相关分析，发现BMI空间回归模型的误差项中存在空间依赖性。然而，我们也观察到当地公共体育设施的数量与当地BMI没有显著关联。这一结果可能是由于当地公共体育设施的利用率低以及空间分布不均衡所致。基于我们的研究结果，我们建议地方议会需要提高公共体育设施的质量，鼓励建设受欢迎的公共体育设施类型。
