Korea Community Health Survey Data Profiles

Bibliographic Data

ID23316644
AuthorsYang Wha Kang (Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency), Yun Sil Ko (Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency), Yoo Jin Kim (0000-0002-3499-3990, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency), Kyoung Mi Sung (Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency), Hyo Jin Kim (0009-0009-6865-1735, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency), Hyung Yun Choi (0000-0002-6134-3504, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency), Changhyun Sung (Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency), Eunkyeong Jeong (Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume6
Issue3
Pages211-217
Publication date2015-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOsong Public Health and Research Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2210-9099 • E-ISSN: 2233-6052
PublisherKorea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.phrp.2015.05.003
PMID26430619
OpenAlexW1871788085
LanguageEN
Citations received64
References cited2

In 2008, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initiated the first nationwide survey, Korea Community Health Survey (KCHS), to provide data that could be used to plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate community health promotion and disease prevention programs. This community-based cross-sectional survey has been conducted by 253 community health centers, 35 community universities, and 1500 interviewers. The KCHS standardized questionnaire was developed jointly by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff, a working group of health indicators standardization subcommittee, and 16 metropolitan cities and provinces with 253 regional sites. The questionnaire covers a variety of topics related to health behaviors and prevention, which is used to assess the prevalence of personal health practices and behaviors related to the leading causes of disease, including smoking, alcohol use, drinking and driving, high blood pressure control, physical activity, weight control, quality of life (European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions, European Quality of Life-Visual Analogue Scale, Korean Instrumental Activities of Daily Living ), medical service, accident, injury, etc. The KCHS was administered by trained interviewers, and the quality control of the KCHS was improved by the introduction of a computer-assisted personal interview in 2010. The KCHS data allow a direct comparison of the differences of health issues among provinces. Furthermore, the provinces can use these data for their own cost-effective health interventions to improve health promotion and disease prevention. For users and researchers throughout the world, microdata (in the form of SAS files) and analytic guidelines can be downloaded from the KCHS website (http://KCHS.cdc.go.kr/) in Korean.

Census · Community health · Disease control · Environmental health · Health promotion · Microdata (statistics) · Population · Psychological intervention · Public health · Health and Wellbeing Research · Medicine · Nursing · Gerontology