The correlation between women’s socioeconomic status and self-perceived health

Given increased acknowledgment on a relationship between socioeconomic status and health for women in Korea, this research examined a correlation between women’s socioeconomic status and self-perceived health in Korea by utilizing data from A Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Family (KLoWF). Survival analysis and Cox regression analysis were used as a statistical method. The results showed that the time required for the perceived health to turn from good to bad was shorter for the low socioeconomic status group compared to the high socioeconomic status group. This suggests that low social groups of women tend to live longer with bad heath conditions than their counterparts.