Strategies of Agricultural Medicine and Rural Health with a Perspective toward the 21st Century - What are the objectives to be carried out? / 日本農村医学会雑誌

ABSTRACT

We held the 48th meeting of the Japanese Association of Agricultural Medicine and Rural Health in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture in November, 1999. The main theme of this meeting was “Strategies of Agricultural Medicine and Rural Health with a Perspective toward the 21st Century”.<BR>The attendants of the meeting held discussion about four subthemes with the relation to the development of rural communities environmental crisis and the human existence, medical high technology and humanism, human dignity and the quality of medicine and welfare, and the co-existence of rural and urban communities.<BR>The presidential lecture, which is reported here, treated the international trend of rural medicine and health care, our practice of rural medicine in San' in District, Japan, and some measures against aging society practiced by us in San' in District. The lecture also discussed about problems presented to the rural medicine in the 21st Century, and proposed several objectives to be carried out integration of health care, medical care, welfare and education in rural districts, promotion of healthy lifestyle in rural districts, corporatism between administrators and researchers in medical care and welfare, policy-making for healthy rural communities and the protection of enviroment and eco-system.