Stephens T
Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD 20782.
Am J Prev Med. 1986 Jul-Aug;2(4):209-15.
Data from the Canada Health Survey were analyzed for the interrelationships of health practices and for the association of health practices with health status. Moderate alcohol use, not smoking, and seat belt use formed a cluster representing passive avoidance of direct risks; exercise and immunization made up another component, identified as active avoidance of abstract risks. These six practices clustered in the same fashion for both sexes; but for women, there was an additional factor, the avoidance of sex-specific risks. Separate health practice indices were created for men and women based on these behaviors. Index scores were shown to be significantly associated with four measures of health status. The association was particularly strong for the two indicators of emotional health for both sexes and for all four indicators for women. This study confirms the conclusions of earlier reports based on regional or highly selected samples and extends them to emotional health status; it is the first study to publish comprehensive data on this question from a sample survey representative of an entire national population.
对加拿大健康调查的数据进行了分析，以研究健康行为之间的相互关系以及健康行为与健康状况之间的关联。适度饮酒、不吸烟和系安全带构成了一个集群，代表被动避免直接风险；锻炼和免疫则构成了另一个组成部分，被确定为主动避免抽象风险。这六种行为在男女中以相同的方式聚类；但对于女性来说，还有一个额外的因素，即避免特定性别的风险。基于这些行为为男性和女性分别创建了健康行为指数。指数得分与四种健康状况指标显著相关。这种关联在男女的两种情绪健康指标以及女性的所有四种指标中尤为强烈。本研究证实了早期基于区域或高度选择样本的报告结论，并将其扩展到情绪健康状况；这是第一项从代表全国总人口的样本调查中发布关于这个问题的全面数据的研究。
