1986 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
STUDY ON SYSTEMATIZATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL MEDICINE FOR ADULT DISEASES.
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60570262
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
公衆衛生学
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| Research Institution | SHOWA UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
ANZAI SADAMU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, SHOWA UNIVERSITY, 医学部, 教授 (30150642)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TAKASAKI YUJI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, SHOWA UNIVERSITY, 医学部, 助手 (40117297)
MIURA YOSHIHIKO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, SHOWA UNIVERSITY, 医学部, 助手 (10143421)
IMADA YOSHIO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, SHOWA UNIVERSIRY, 医学部, 講師 (30151674)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1985 – 1986
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| Keywords | Geographical Medicine / Geographical Pathology / Medical Geography / Geography of Health / Adult Diseases / Maps |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to review the methodology and applications of geographical medicine for adult diseases. The following points were mainly discussed.
1. Conception of adult diseases and its epidemiologic trend.
2. Mapping techniques of disease distribution developed by previous investigators.
3. Materials and methods to analyze and present etiological factors.
The noninfectious and chronic diseases, such as ischaemic heart disease, malignant neoplasm and cerebrovascular disease, are generally called as adult diseases in Japan. Synthetic studies are needed to cope with adult diseases, since they are suspected to be closely related to multiple factors. Then, it is available to investigate the etiology from the view point of geographical medicine which deals with environmental, biological and socioeconomic problems. Distribution maps of mortality, morbidity and related epidemiologic factors have been produced by many investigators using dot, choropleth, demographic and probability maps. Appearance of computer expanded mapping abilities, and epidemiologic data began to be extensively employed through computational database. During 1970s computer cartography in geographical medicine became popular. Widespread of microcomputers during the late 1970s and early 1980s enabled us to analyze the data more easily. However, although the leading causes of death are now adult diseases in developed countries, there are not so many literatures geographically studied on these diseases and further investigations are necessary.
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