Neighborhood Environment and Health-Related Quality of Life: Analysis Using the Japanese General Social Surveys

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  • Tomoya HANIBUCHI
    School of International Liberal Studies, Chukyo University
  • Tomoki NAKAYA
    Department of Geography and Research Institute for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University
  • Misa TAKEGAMI
    National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center

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  • 近隣環境と健康関連QOL——日本版総合的社会調査を用いた分析——
  • 近隣環境と健康関連QOL : 日本版総合的社会調査を用いた分析
  • キンリン カンキョウ ト ケンコウ カンレン QOL : ニホンバン ソウゴウテキ シャカイ チョウサ オ モチイタ ブンセキ

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<p>An increasing body of literature has focused on neighborhood environments as one of the factors that determine health. Nevertheless, the research that has been conducted in Japan in this regard and that at a national scale have been very limited. In this study, statistical analysis was conducted to determine whether health-related quality of life (HRQOL) correlates with particular characteristics of the neighborhoods that people live in. Multilevel analysis was applied to data from the Japanese General Social Surveys of 2010 (n=2,326) to examine the associations of the three composite scales of HRQOL (SF-12) with both perceived and objective measurements of neighborhood environments. The results indicate that respondents who expressed positive perceptions of their neighborhood were more likely to have better levels of HRQOL. However, the objective measures of neighborhood environments were not independently associated with HRQOL, which indicates that the connections between health and place of residence are fairly complex.</p>

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