The Structure of Healthy Life Determinants

Lessons from the Japanese Aging Cohort Studies
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-981-10-6628-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 4439 g

Reihe: International Perspectives on Aging

Arranges chapters in the order of causal model creation to facilitate readers’ understanding in a step-by-step manner
Provides evidence-based contents making a careful choice among many studies published for science journals
Standardizes the studies only model evaluation’s reports to help readers’ easily understand the cause-and-effect model visually

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoshi, Tanji

Kodama, Sayuri

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Geriatrie, Gerontologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Lebensqualitätsforschung (med.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Population aging trend of the world.- 3. SES, physical health, and long-term care needs.- 4. SES, comorbidity, activity limitations, and healthy life expectancy.- 5. SES, mental health, and need for long-term care.- 6. SES, social interaction, and health status.- 7. SES, dietary and lifestyle habits, and three health-related dimensions.- 8. SES, dietary and lifestyle habits, three health-related dimensions, and healthy survival days.- 9. SES, dietary quality, emotional well-being, and a five-year subjective health in middle-age.- 10. Causal relationships among three health-related dimensions.- 11. SES, environmental condition, three health-related dimensions, and healthy life expectancy.- Afterword.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Tanji Hoshi, M.D., Ph.D. , is a professor emeritus at the Graduate School of Urban System Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. He is highly active in research in the areas of public health and in establishing diverse research targets, i.e., medicine, diet, housing, dental science, and pet animals as they relate to human health. His main published work is Causal relationships between survival rates, dietary and lifestyle habits, socioeconomic status and physical, mental and social health in elderly urban dwellers in Japan: A chronological study (DOI: 10.4236/health.2013.58177).

Sayuri Kodama, RD, Ph.D., MMS , is a lecturer at the Department of Food and Nutrition Science, Sagami Women's Junior College, Japan. She is a registered dietitian, and she is also very much involved in research in public health nutrition areas, setting research targets for diet quality, and related factors. Her main published workis Dietary quality and its structural relationships among equivalent income, emotional well-being, and a five-year subjective health in Japanese middle-aged urban dwellers (DOI: 10.1186/s13690-015-0081-0. eCollection 2015).