Foreign residents' health care in Japan
- VernacularTitle:在日外国人の保健医療
- Author:
Setsuko Lee
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Foreign residents' health care in Japan;
internationalization Vital statistics;
death statistics;
international marriage
- From:Journal of International Health
2004;18(1):7-12
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
The purpose of clarifying a foreign resident's in Japan healthy problem and a health care subject was carried out, and foreigner demographic statistics and vitalstatistics were analyzed. The following things became clear.
From the second half of the 1980 th generation, foreign-resident-in-Japan population and international marriage were increased rapidly, and many race-nization in Japan was progressing.
The people population from Brazil was concentrated on 30 years-old cost from 20 years-old cost, and the population of the less than 15-year-old child born in Japan was increasing every year. Moreover, ”the sickness and wound and the external cause of death” which are occupied to the total number of death were high.
The Korean resident in Japan formed 80 percent of the 65 or older-year foreigner registration person. The three major causes of death of Korean are malignant neoplasms (cancer), heart diseases and cerebrovascular diseases. It was similar with the Japanese death trend. Suicide of a persons-of-middle-or-advanced-age male was increasing like the Japanese male.
A foreign resident's in Japan healthy subject is roughly classified into three. There is a geriatric health problem about a Korean resident in Japan. In recent years, about the foreigner who immigrated to Japan, there is a problem of mother-and-child health and labor health. And to all foreigners, there is a problem of the mental health resulting from migration, foreign culture, and the minority.
The health care corresponding to internationalization is called for also in Japan.
