Describing geographical health disparities and its associated factors with governmental statistics

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26870531
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Hygiene and public health; Epidemiology and preventive medicine
• Research Institution: Fukushima Medical University (2017); Jichi Medical University (2014-2016)
• Principal Investigator: Tsuboi Satoshi 福島県立医科大学, 医学部, 准教授 (20453011)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 疾病地図 / 公的統計 / 記述疫学 / 生態学的研究

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In the present study, we aimed to create disease maps of various causes with governmental statistics, and to analyze the associations between geographical differences in risk of death and a number of doctors per population in each local government.
The created disease maps showed the geographical disparities of the risks of death, and there were some local governments that the risks of death were continuously high or low. In local governments in that the number of doctors per population was low, the variance of the risks was relatively high. The role of doctors in geographical health disparities should be studied more. The outcome of the present study is expected to use by health care policy makers as a fundamental information in improving Japanese public health.

Free Research Field

公衆衛生学