The relationship between Self-rated Health and Physical Activities of American workers by gender

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Physical activity has long been regarded as an important component of a healthy lifestyle. Recently, this impression has been reinforced by new scientific evidences linking physical activities to a wide array of physical and mental health benefits. Nevertheless, there are little detailed researches examining the association between physical activities and subjective health level by using micro-data. Further study is needed to grasp the relationship between the contents of physical activities and health levels in more detail. This study focused on the association between self-rated health and physical activities of the employees by gender and age class, and investigated what kind of daily activities significantly affect self-rated health, using individual dataset in the US. Large-sized micro-data taken from a nationwide internet survey of worker in the US(N＝1001) was used in this analysis and two types of daily activities are considered; physically inactive and active. The estimation result shows that in the case of physically inactive activity, viewing arts is highly correlated with high level of self-rated health for men in their twenties. In addition, in the case of physically active activity, doing sport and gambling have the significant impact on the health level for men in their thirties. As for women in their thirties, both reading (physically inactive) and doing sport (physically active) are associated with the high level of self-rated health.

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  • 経済論究

    経済論究 150 1-14, 2014-12-19

    九州大学大学院経済学会

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