Health and Community of the Foreign Residents
- VernacularTitle:在住外国人の健康と地域社会
- Author:
Yasushi NAKAMURA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Health of the Community;
Cooperation and Self-Support of Foreign Residents in Japan;
Foreign Citizen's Committee;
Regional Internationalization;
Multiple-Cultural Collaboration and Cooperation
- From:Journal of International Health
2008;23(1):9-12
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
Kani city, Gifu is yet a typical small local town of 100,000 populations but has Japanese Brazilian and Filipino increased recently and shares 7% of total population that is a foreigner residing town.
The foreigner residing towns to be called are facing similar several issues at every place. The working and educational environment for the people as the migrant worker from Central and South America and their health condition which is the most important became worsen.
4 years ago in Kani city, we made a survey for the educational environment of the children of foreigners for 2 years period, which was reported in public and gained favorable evaluation from several sectors.
Nowadays we are promoting to assure their social status who live in the local community. They are working as same as Japanese, and sometime to do the job that Japanese would not, but it seems that they are ignored on their treatment in the social life. If they spoil their own health, their life planning may cause a serious problem. Once they dropout, they may not have any chance to recover themselves. This means the “healthy condition” of the local society will be damaged before long. Therefore, we started the foreign nationality citizen's committee where we can maintain not only the individual health but also to be healthy local society from the concept that the foreign residents would not rely on the local society but they act themselves as the citizen and the local residents to participate with the local activities so that they can enjoy their independency, health, pleasure and hope.
