Living environments, infant mortality and disease in modern Japan

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530397
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic history
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Tomobe kenichi 大阪大学, 経済学研究科(研究院), 教授 (00227646)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 乳児死亡 / 疾病構造 / 生活環境 / 死亡統計 / 出生力

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project researched on the relationship between industrialization, urbanization mortality and disease environment, as indexes of standards of living of the contemporary people in Japan, on the context of household economy changed at the process of modernization of Japan. Especially, much attention will be paid to how the changing living environment came from the change of infectious disease like tuberculosis and so on gave affect to their standards of living measured by ingfant mortality, marital fertility and physical indexes such as height and weight of children.

Free Research Field

日本経済史