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Influencing Factors on Health Promotion Practice Will of Female College Students

As for solutions of health problems, treatment centric clinic used to be emphasized in the past for health management, but these days, attentions are concentrated on the willingness to improve the environment and lifestyle and practice health care rather than the problem of public health itself. In case of women college students, since they are bound to take responsibility for the childbirth and the health care of the family members after marriage in the future, their attitude and practice of health affect their future children and family as well as themselves. Therefore, women college students require the willingness to practice health improvement in order to establish the right actions for health improvement. Establishment of the willingness to practice health improvement is important also in the dimension of the nationals health improvement. As for the correlation of the willingness to practice health improvement and the factors that affect health, the willingness to practice health improvement was found to be strongly related with eating habit, hygiene management and health concern. As a result of analysis, the willingness to practice health improvement was affected by grade level, the high school they graduated from, whether they live with parents, whether their parents drink alcohol, household economic level, whether they drink alcohol, the frequency at which they exercise, eating habit, hygiene management and health concern and mental health in the case of women college students. In conclusion, it is judged that well-organized effective health related program shall be developed and education be provided to lift up the willingness of women college students.