The Influence of National Health Behavior on Macroeconomics-A Case Study of Adolescent Health Behavior in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chang Min Hsiung, 張閔雄
• Other Authors: Ho Su Sie
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71390841676495861689

碩士 === 嶺東科技大學 === 國際企業研究所 === 98 === 　　A cross-sectional data was applied to investigate the influence of individual demographic factors, sexual knowledge, and hygiene behavior on sexual behavior among the adolescent by gender. 　　Subjects included more than 8,000 youths, ages from 14 to 22 years old. Akaikes’s information criterion (AIC) and Bayesian information criterion (BIC) were used to criticize the numbers of parameter and goodness-of-fit. In addition, binary probit model further was used to examine the heterogeneity of sex behavior between boys and girls. 　　Compared with rural area, the urban area for girls revealed a significantly higher probability of sexual behavior, but area variable showed significance only for girls not for boys. Contrast patterns were observed for religion belief. Boys with devout belief had a significantly lower probability of sexual behavior than those who never had. Similarly, religion variable showed significance only for boys but not qualifying as a significant statistic for girls. Next, for the sexual knowledge, this paper rendered interesting and plausible findings. Sexual internet variable strongly associated with sexual behavior for both young boys and girls, but sexual books variable showed statistics significance only for girls. Finally, in terms of hygiene behavior, ben-nut variable showed a significant influence on such for girls. 　　Findings suggest that the living areas, sexual knowledge, and hygiene behavior variables have different significant effects on sex behavior between boys and girls.