Studies on Health Awareness and Health Behavior at a Local Level Ⅳ-A Survey on the sexes difference-

地域における健康教育の受講者は女性が多かったが，近年は男性も増えつつある。このことから健康教育の内容・方法に新な工夫が必要である。そこで健康意識及び保健医療行動面の性別特性を見出し，健康教育の企画に役立てるため，兵庫県で行われている健康講座の昭和54年から3か年にわたり受講者にアンケートを求め，4428人からの回答を基に男女の比較検討を行った。結果の内容は，1．健康の保持増進・健診・健康知識の入手等について，男性は積極的だが解決は個別的であり，女性は受動的で解決は集団的傾向がある。2．受診は女性に我慢型が目立つが医師選択には人間関係を重視している。3．子どもの健康に対する見方・禁煙問題には差がないなどである。Until a recent year,there were many attendances of wemen on the seminar of health education for citizen,but now a day,there are increasing the attendances of men.As a matter of course,we need to improve the seminar of health education.Then,in order to find the distinction of men and wemen for the health attitude and put to use these seminars,extending over three years(1979-1981),we addressed the questionnaires to the attendances on the seminar of health education which was heald by the Hyogo Prefecture Authority.The questionnaries contain some items related with health awareness and health behavior.The answers were obtained from 599 men and 3829 wemen whose all ages were over 20 years old.The main results were as follows:1.For the prevention of disease and the promotion of health examination and to get the health knowledge,the men took up a positive attitude but individual in the means of solving and on the other hand the wemen took up a passive attitude and collective in the means.2.Many wemen put up with consulting a physician in early symptoms,but once they had consulted a physician,they tended to take a serious view of human-relations for him.3.Many persons of the answers suspected that a good life is based on the health,but the men were interested in medical problems than the wemen and as regarding the prohibit from smoking on the medical waiting rooms,there were no significant differences in their sexes.4.Although they hardly showed any differences in the view points for the health of children,as for a way of solving the school health problems,the men showed a tendency to ask for more health and physical lessons,the repletion of health administration,the training of teacher and wemen showed a tendency to the improvement of shcool lunch Programs