Levels and Styles of Living and Health Indicators : I . A Structural Study

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This is the first of a series of studies seeking to find basic dimensions of levels and styles of living (LSL) emphasizing their health—related aspects, and thus to yield ?ecomprehensive health indicators' of a population . First, 41 measures, including economic, social—cultural, and health indicators, were obtaind for all 46 prefectures of Japan in 1965. They were correlated and factored . Two basic factors of LSL, ?eurbanization' and?egerontization increase of the proportion of aged in the population—', were extracted. The 46 prefectures were classified into seven groups according to their factor scores describing LSL. Secondly, by examining their factor loadings, several health indicators representing each basic factor of LSL were picked out : indicators corresponding with urbanization were death rate caused by vascular lesions, infant mortality rate and neonate mortality rate ; indicators coresponding with gerontization were PMI, death rate caused by malignant neoplasms, and senility death rate. Finally, the seven prefectural groups were compared using 19 health indicators, mostly death rates. Large inter-group differences were found in standardized death rate, PMI, infant mortality rate and death rates caused by vascular lesions and (combined) nephritis and nephrosis.
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