Medical Cost Reduction from Healty Promotion Intervention for Community Elderly

人们普遍认为，生活方式和健康状况之间有很大的关系。然而，在日本老年人口中，这种关系还没有被很好地记录下来。我们使用了来自阿美健康促进老年人调查(复查)的数据来调查茨城县阿美镇老年社区居民的生活方式和健康状况之间的关系。(7800人中的4898人；62.8%)我根据自我评估的健康状况将受试者分为不健康组和健康组，并检验了生活方式对健康的影响。健康状况不良率由1999年的64.8%上升到71.5%，调查结果显示生活方式有所改善。此外，通过健康促进活动的干预来维持老年人的健康状况，并推测医疗费用控制的效果。

It is generally accepted that there are significant relationships between lifestyle and health status. However, such relationships have not been well documented in the case of the Japanese elderly population.Data from the Ami Health Promotion for Elderly Survey (reexamination) were employed to investigate the relationship between lifestyle and health status from elderly community residents in the Ami Town, Ibaraki Prefecture.(4,898 from 7,800 persons ; 62.8%) I divided the subjects into an unwell group and a healthy group based on self-evaluated health status, and examined the effects of lifestyle on health. The rate of those who were not in good health increased to 71.5%, although year of 1999 were 64.8%.The improvement of lifestyles were found in the results of the investigation. Moreover, the health status of elderly persons were maintained by interventions of the health promotion activity, and the effect of medical cost containment were presumed.