Gwangju Seo-gu, First Autonomous District Nationwide to Publish 'Neighborhood Health Map'

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Yoon Jamin] Seo-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City (Seo Daeseok, Seo-gu Mayor) announced on the 23rd that it has published "Healthy Seo-gu is Good!", a neighborhood health map using health indicators by dong, the first of its kind among autonomous districts nationwide.

Community health statistics have been produced annually since 2008 through community health surveys for 255 autonomous districts, generating health statistics at the city, county, and district levels, but not at the eup, myeon, and dong levels.

Accordingly, Seo-gu established a health map platform plan to promote customized health policies for local residents and analyzed 37 health indicators including health habits, chronic diseases, and mental health based on community health survey data from the past five years.

The health map produced based on this includes information on 11 health indicators of high interest to residents, such as smoking, drinking, chronic diseases, and mental health.

The indicators are arranged so that residents can easily identify and improve major health issues by comparing the overall health level of each neighborhood with the average indicators of Seo-gu.

The booklet contains practical information to help residents lead healthy lives, including the status of institutions and organizations by dong, population structure, Seo-gu’s health projects, sports facilities, and health walking trails.

In the future, the health map will be used as basic data for health program operation to solve major health problems of residents by dong. It is also expected to be useful for establishing and promoting health policies to reduce gaps in health indicators between dongs.

A Seo-gu official said, “Health issues of neighborhood residents should be solved together by the community, not by individuals,” and added, “We will do our best to become a healthy city responsible for healthy lives through building a health community with residents.”

Meanwhile, Seo-gu plans to post rankings of health levels by dong and other health indicators not included in the booklet on the Seo-gu Office website’s ‘Our Neighborhood Health Search’.

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