Does Health Promotion Program Affect Local Resident’ Emotions?

Munjae Lee, Sewon Park and Kichan Yoon
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Munjae Lee: Department of Medical Device Management and Research, SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 06351, Korea
Sewon Park: Department of Medical Device Management and Research, SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 06351, Korea
Kichan Yoon: Research Center, Social Security Information Service, Seoul 04554, Korea

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 4, 1-14

Abstract: Healthy cities continuously attempt to improve residents’ health. Health is affected by psychological factors, such as happiness and emotions. Therefore, this study investigates the effects of healthy city program performance on individuals’ emotions, as well as the correlation between healthy city program performance and emotions using personal happiness index as a parameter. We conducted a questionnaire survey of residents in areas implementing healthy city projects. A total of 596 responses were obtained. We used structural equations to analyze the relationship of structural influences. Results showed that healthy city program performance had significant static effects on emotion. This observation shows that healthy city programs decrease local residents’ negative emotions, such as stress and depression. Therefore, healthy city programs stabilize residents’ emotions by increasing health friendliness. To improve the performance of healthy city programs, it is necessary to mitigate health risk factors and positively affect individuals’ emotions.

Keywords: healthy city; health promotion; local resident emotion; happiness; Korea (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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