Development of the community intervention program for the improvement of health inequality

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25560357
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Applied health science
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Arao Takashi 早稲田大学, スポーツ科学学術院, 教授 (00409707)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): INAYAMA Takayo 首都大学東京, 人間健康科学研究科, 准教授 (10254567)
• Research Collaborator: MATSUSHITA Munehiro 早稲田大学, スポーツ科学学術院, 助手 (20758594) ; NAKAMURA Saki 首都大学東京, 人間健康科学研究科, 博士後期課程・日本学術振興会特別研究員
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 健康格差 / 身体活動 / 食行動 / ヘルスリテラシー / 健康教育 / 社会経済的地位 / 介入プログラム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In order to reduce health disparities among middle aged adults, the following three studies were conducted; I) to examine the relationship between socioeconomic position and physical activity or eating behaviors, II) to examine the relationship between health literacy and physical activity or eating vegetables, III) to develop internet-based intervention program focusing on health literacy for promoting eating vegetables and physical activity.
As the results of these studies, the following findings were obtained, a) low socioeconomic position(<3 million yen) showed significant lower levels of physical activity and eating vegetables than high socioeconomic position(>3 million yen), b) health literacy was positively and significantly related with physical activity and eating vegetables, c) the internet-based intervention program significantly promoted health literacy in low socioeconomic position and the volume of vegetable intake in all socioeconomic positions.

Free Research Field

応用健康科学