On the Living Conditions and Health Level in Communities / 日本農村医学会雑誌

ABSTRACT

Nowadays the agricultural production system in the farm area has remarkably been changed and this has influenced the farmers in many aspects of life.<BR>We tried by epidemiologic cross-sectional survey to ascertain the health level of 6, 597 farmers, who are self-supporting and middle class in the sixty-seven different districts of Kumamoto Prefecture. It is noticeable that judging from the difference of districts, the health level of the farmers who have a big gricultural production is low, and judging from the difference of the class, that of the farmers who have other jobs besides agriculture is low, too In general, the health level of males is relatively higher than that of females, but the health level of males is higher than that of females, depending on the class difference.<BR>Generally speaking, we noticed that the health level of female is very low, and at the same time the variation of the health level of females is more remarkable than that of males, depending on the quality of the district in which they live.<BR>These resutls of these investigations should be utilized as the basic materials source for a prospective survey of changing farm village from now.