2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An analysis of the infant mortality from the Taisho to Pre-war Showa eras on the basis of rural women's labor load, infant rearing, and maternal and infant health
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22530347
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic history
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| Research Institution | Surugadai University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 乳児死亡 / 女性労働 / 明治・大正期 / 母乳哺育 / 母子保健 / 育児 / 農村保健衛 / 農業労働 |
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| Research Abstract |
Causes of the high infant mortality from the Taisho to Pre-war Showa eras have been pursued on the basis of rural women’s labor load, infant rearing, and maternal and infant health. Of the results obtained in this project, the following two points deserve particular emphasis. The first is that rural mothers began to give their babies formula milk to make up for the lack of breast milk, intake of which was still as insufficient in the beginning of the pre-war Showa era as it was in the Taisho era owing to low nursing frequency. The second is that increasing intake of formula milk prevented infants malnutrition and could have caused the drastic decline of infant mortality in the Pre-war Showa era.
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Research Products
(2 results)
