An Analysis of Articles about Women's Health

Yeoum, Soon Gyo; Park, Chai Soon

doi:2005.11.4.333

Korean J Women Health Nurs > Volume 11(4); 2005 > Article

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Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing 2005;11(4):333-346.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4069/kjwhn.2005.11.4.333

An Analysis of Articles about Women's Health

Soon Gyo Yeoum, Chai Soon Park

¹Department of Nursing, Seoil College.
²College of Nursing, The Catholic University. cspark@catholic.ac.kr

Abstract

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to classify the research domains and subjects based on existing health problems, sex/gender specific crucial health differences and common risks across the life span. METHOD: Three hundred and seventy seven articles were examined that were published in 3 nursing journals from 1999 to 2004. RESULTS: Research subjects were classified into middle-aged women (23%), nurses (20%), pregnant women (17%), school girls (14%), ill women (8%), working women (4%), elderly women (4%), mothers (3%), married women (3%), and unmarried women (2%) in sequence. The total number of keywords were 820 and the mean was 2.17 per article. Research domains were health behaviors (27%), childbirth (20%), socio-cultural and economic activities (8%), illness (6%), the reproductive system (5%), and demographics (5%) in the order of frequency. Research concepts shown were universal health behaviors (8.4%), mental health (7.2%), labor and delivery (6.2%), parent roles (5.5%), breast- feeding (4.6%), violence (4.5%), climacterics (4.3%), postpartum care (4.0%), weight control behaviors (3.8%), and a healthy life (3.5%) in frequency. CONCLUSION: Based on the research results, research concepts should be chosen closely related with the existing health problems, sex/gender specific differences and common risks across the life span. Especially these matters should be taken into consideration for study: education about the risks of artificial abortion, giving information for decision making on cesarean birth, low birth rates, infection during pregnancy, and the increasing rate of divorce.

Key Words: Women; Health; Sex/gender difference; Health risk