Metropolitan area in northern Taiwan aboriginal
health care resource utilization and related factors in the case of the East Village to Hsichih fowers such ─ as Example
Abstract
Republic of China 50 years since a large number of indigenous people to move the city to make a living, and more labor-intensive work in the main, the aboriginal people because of social culture and customs very different from general society, coupled with migration to urban living environment in general is not after good, and impose in job insecurity, wage income is not fixed so long under the harsh working environment, resulting in relatively poor health status and increased likelihood of disease.
In this study, from 2000 to 2002, the to Taipei and Keelung City to interview at least 391 cases investigated, application SPSS statistical software, analysis of the metropolitan area of northern Taiwan
aboriginal health needs, health seeking behavior , bad life style, health care utilization, medical problems they encounter and use cases such as national health insurance.
Respondents to this study of young adults are most popular Amis, about a quarter of respondents smoking behavior, 34 percent of the respondents were chewing betel nut, but more than 6% 10 of the respondents drinking habits, is worthy of attention.
The respondents medical behavior, when the situation encountered when sick, to choose to look at Western medicine clinics, the
majority, most respondents were satisfied with the medical treatment to facilitate the sexy, but still the respondents have encountered difficulties when seeking medical care, such as :
inquiry time is short, the language barrier, poor staff attitude and so on, and some respondents due to differential treatment of
indigenous identity being.
In preventive health behaviors, regular health checks of
respondents low rate of Pap smear in women with infants and young
children to receive vaccination rate is not high. Most people think of great help to the national health insurance system, there are still a handful of people did not pay health insurance fees for their
problems without the added national health insurance, and half of them aboriginal health insurance for the sixth class of the second goal was insurers more than 50 years old, full of old premiums do not understand the welfare benefits, we can see the benefits of social welfare and advocacy for the yet to be strengthened.
Seen in the metropolitan area and the health needs of Aboriginal health problems, should be appropriate to attach importance to and strengthen public education, Aboriginal languages may be familiar with the training of volunteers of Yin, to each household for health and welfare advocacy. The other, the establishment of health care Garrison stations, Aboriginal languages clerk Yin cooked or
volunteers to help see the doctor, health center and clinic features of intensive treatment and referral system implementation, and distribution plan to cultivate Taiwan Province of local health care workers aboriginal aboriginal GSPs gathering area to the city
services, the promotion of urban aboriginal health care services and improve their health and quality of life does.
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