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Impact of regional differences in residential environment on healthy life expectancy in 1,300 Japanese municipalities
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Housing and health
Life expectancy
Japan
Description
Purpose: To clarify how regional differences in residential environment impact healthy life expectancy.
Methodology: Define healthy life expectancy and considered how to measure and calculate it. Calculated healthy life expectancy for 1,750 municipalities in Japan in 2005 and 2010.
Results: It was confirmed that 1% of the decrease of proportion of housing constructed before 1970 in each municipality contributed to increasing healthy life expectancy by 4.84 years for men and 4.09 years for women.
Key Findings: Regional difference in healthy life expectancy was seen strongly relevant to the lifestyle and revenue and found a certain degree of relevance with regional differences in living environment.
Publication Details
DOI:
10.4225/50/58107c01870ba
Copyright:
The authors
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open
Post date:
24 Oct 2016
