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Overview of SC Movement inJapan There is no SC designated community

Impact of Safe Community
Initiatives in a Japanesecommunity
From a Case of Kameoka City
Yoko Shiraishi
Mature Life Institute
Ritsumeikan University

in Japan yet.
 However, there are currently somecommunities which are working on SP
based on the concept of SC.
 Kameoka City in Kyoto prefecture is
one of communities which are workingon SP.
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Kameoka City at glance
China Kameoka City isKinkKorea

located just outside ofKyoto City.

JapaniDistrict➠ Suburb area withabundant Nature
 Population ；100,000➠ Aging rapidly

Kinki district
Kyoto City

 Good accessibility toOsaka and Kyoto

Kyoto City
Kameoka City
Kameoka City
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3➠ Heavy traffic
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Overview of SC programs

Purposes of Questionnaires

 Kameoka has conducted the following

 To get information of injuries which

programs to understand current
condition of Safety.

cannot be found in statistics.
 To see subjective aspects of Safety
 To get community informed with SCand SP➠Data gathering from several sources➠Focus group meetings➠ Questionnaire survey➠improve awareness of SC among residents➠Workshop of residents at a pilot area

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Outline of the Survey

Questionnaire sheets Target ;Households➠all households (29,671) in the city

➠Awareness of SC➠their family members aged over 18 yrs old➠Involvement in SC

 Methods;➠delivered to each households by Time line; distributed on Feb. 1-5,collection dead line on Feb. 26
 Collection rate: 24.2%
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injuries andaccidents➠Communicationand net workwhen support isneeded➠Experience ofvolunteers, then collected by mail Individuals

injury, crime, andnatural disasters
and so on➠Factors which
endanger life

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2007/7/10【Q3 Do you know about Safe Community?】％
N=7,157010

Know well

2030

4050

3.8

Know some

19.5

neutral

3.4

Don't know well

28.6

Don't know at all

44.0

missing value

Figure2

Result2 worry & actual condition

Result 1 high perception of SC

0.7【 Q 2 1 W h at m ak e s yo u wo r r y, wh e n yo u t h i n k
abo u t yo u r l i f e i n t h e n e x t 5 ye ar s ? 】

media have good
performance ofgetting people
informed with SC

010

strongly interested

2030

4050

12.3

relatively interested

42.9

neutral27.0

little interested

12.3

not interested at all

3.4

missig value

2.1

20

fall/accident at
homefall/accident
outside➠ ¼ have perception of【Q6 Are you interested in SC?】 N=7,157 ％0Figure3 Worry in the next 5 years

 PR programs with

SC in 8 months (Fig.1)➠ Over ½ are interestedin SC(Fig.2)➠ Considering SC is
foreign language, thismay be good result.
929.1
33.4
19.5

accident/injury
at school

15.8

accident/injury
at leisure/sports
injury byviolence

3.5
21.6

•Main
•Maincausecauseofofbeing
beingininneed
need
ofofcarecareamongamongelderly
elderly•The•Thenumber
numberofofelderly
elderlyhas
hasbeenbeen
growinggrowingrapidly
rapidly•Heavy•Heavytraffic
traffichas
hasbeenbeenaaserious
seriousworry
worryamong
amongresidents
residents•Second•Secondhighest
highestnumber
numberofofthe
thecausecauseofofdeath
deathininthe
thelastlast10yers
10yers54.3very worried
worried

4.3
21.2
2.6
19.4
4.5

crime

11.0

fire

12.6

natural disaster

％
80

60

5.4
6.3

traffic injury

accident/injury
at work40

34.3•About•Abouthalfhalfofofresidents
residents
experienced
experienceddamage
damagefrom
fromstorm,storm,flood,andearthquake
flood, and earthquake

41.3

20.6

47.2

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Result 2-2 prevention activities
for disasters
Figure4 Activities which people are

Result 2-3 low concern of suicideinterested in【Q18 measures for disasters prevention 】（MA)【Q18 measures for disasters prevention 】（MA)
020
20

0％
％
80
80

27.4
27.4

preparing survival kit
preparing survival kit

39.8
39.8
11.9
11.9

8.3
8.3

5.1
5.1【Q17 experience of disasters】（MA)【Q17 experience of disasters】（MA)
00

2020

earthquake
earthquake

participation to map making
1.0
participation to map making
1.0
reinforcement of fences andreinforcementof fences and 3.7
buildings
3.7
buildings
12.2
fire prevention activities
12.2
fire prevention activities
take out insurance
take out insurance

01020

40
40

60
60

80
80％
％
100
100

18.7

school safety
7.4

work place safety

10.1

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6.0
22.7
27.4
33.8

children's safety

59.0
59.0

firefireothers
19.2
19.2

2.0others
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K a m e o k a C i t y N= 4 2 7transport
transport
collisions,collisions,
121, 28.3%
121, 28.3%

40.0

elderly's safety
11.3
15.0
12.2

juvenile delinquency prevention
7.5
7.5

is not concerned asmuch as it should be.
cause of death(Fig.7)

8.8

leasure and sport safety

 “Suicide prevention”➠ It is the top of thesuicide prevention

DV prevention

％
50

33.4

traffic safety

disabled peopl's safety

53.3
53.3

flood and storm
flood and storm
landslide disasterlandslide disaster

40
37.6

women's safety

44.9
44.9

30

home accident prevention

natural disaster prevention

Figur5

11.6
11.6

4.5
4.5

【Q7 Activities you want to involve in】(MA)crime prevention

5.0
5.0

role-sharing for emergency
role-sharing for emergency

activities while highanxiety about
disasters(Fig.5)
public programs (Fig.4)

5.5
5.5

evaluation of seismic capacity
evaluation of seismic capacity

 Not much prevention➠ not much concern in

41.0
41.0

having extinguishers
having extinguishers
A fire alarm installation
A fire alarm installation
reading guide map of disasterreading guide
map of disasterprevention
prevention
resislation to Kameoka disaster
resislation
Kameokadisasterinformationtoe-mailservice
information e-mail service
participation to evacuation training
participation to evacuation training

6060

22.5
22.5

anchor furniture to walls
anchor furniture to walls

conformation of evacuation sites
conformation of evacuation sites
conformation of route to evacuation
conformation ofroute to evacuation
sites
sites

40
40

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2.7

11intentional
intentional
self-harm,self-harm,
163, 38.2%
163, 38.2%

falls, 37, 8.7%
falls, 37, 8.7%

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Result 3 safety and satisfaction
 There is correlation among feeling of safety

in daily life, satisfaction for life andattachment to their community.
【Feelin g of Safety & Sa tisfa ction withlife】
0%20%

40%60%80%【Feelin g of Sa fety & a tta ch met to th ecommu n ity】
0%

100%

very safevery safe

safesafe

cannotanswer

cannotanswernot safe

not safe

not safe atall

not safe atallvery sasified
cannot answer
not satisfied at all

satisfied
not satisfied

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20%

Strongky attachedcannot answe
not attached at all

40%

60%

80%

100%

Findings
 PR programs with media has improved

awareness of SC Most worries come from the actualsituation. But …..
➠not always being interested in prevention

work at community level➠much less concern about suicide prevention
 There is correlation among feeling ofattached
not attached

Figure913safety, satisfaction and attachment to thecommunity.
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Consideration for the future
To improve safety in Kameoka, recommendation can be ;•Continual PR to establish SC culture•Increase of interest and involvement of prevention
activities for “Natural disaster”
disaster” including “Fire”
Fire” atcommunity level as well as individual level. (cf. workshop)•Higher priority on suicide prevention programs

Research members
 This research has been conducted incollaboration with the flowing members.
➠Tomoki Nakaya, Ritsumeikan Univ.
➠Ryozo Matsuda, Ritumeikan Univ.
➠Yutaka Honda, Ritumeikan Univ.
➠Hidekado Tanaka, Kameoka City
➠Naoki Hatta, Kyoto prefecture

Improvement
Improvement ofof safety
safety contributes
contributes totoimprovement
improvement ofof satisfaction
satisfaction ofof life
lifeandand attachment
attachment toto communities
communities
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Thank you

Contact;
Yoko Shiraishi
Yokomature@cyberoz.net

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