Health, longevity and life conditions in Okinawa
By: Guy Bäckman
Series: Commentationes scientiarum socialium -- 74
Publisher: The Finnish Society of Science and Letters
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Helsinki
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9789516533806
Subjects: Longevity; Social conditions; Health and hygiene; Life expectancy; Older people
Description: "This book is about health and longevity in changing conditions among the people of the island prefecture of Okinawa. This 47th, south-western-most prefecture of Japan, is known as a region with a rapid increase in longevity after World War II. The number of people who have reached the age of 100 years, centenarians, is internationally high, and low rates of mortality in, for example, heart and cerebrovascular diseases, have been characteristic of the island prefecture. This is the longevity face of Okinawa, which in 1995 led to the proclamation of Okinawa as a World Longevity Region. Since then, however, changes in the longevity face have have taken place because statisitics have revealed that the health among men is in danger. The longevity face has at least for men been sorely wounded. The changed health of especially men in middle age is of the greatest concern in health and social policy."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-187) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Places and health; title: Okinawa and its population; title: Recovery and a new mystery: men's health in danger; title: Successful aging: increase in longevity and the shock; title: Changed life styles; title: The new consumption pattern: a threat to health; title: Models of life expectancies; title: Visions of the future.