An empirical study of the role of socio-economic factors in the formation of health status

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This study focuses on whether Social Economic Statuses such as occupation, income, educational achievement, life chances, and so on, affect the health status of people in Japan. In the framework of ICF, or ICDH-2,environmental factors have significant roles in the process of people's health formation. Among such environmental factors, we focused on SES. In order to answer this question, we made two researches. The first one was carried in 2003, and the population of it was general people. The sample size was 3,000. The second one was carried in 2004, and the population of it was older people. Traditionally occupational status has been used in this type of research, but, we introduce the variables of community, social capital, perceived health competence scale as well in the analysis of the former research. We could find that socio economic variables including social capital affected the people's health status at a certain level. We analyzed the latter research in terms of social network, social support and so on. And we could find social network affected physical status of older people at certain level. We continue data analysis on these two researches.