A Study of Health Disorders in Women Farmers in Niigata Prefecture with Reference to Agricultural Production Structure
10.2185/jjrm.32.72
- VernacularTitle:新潟県における農業生産構造と婦人農業従事者の健康障害に関する研究
- Author:
Kazunori SUGIYAMA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
1983;32(2):72-86
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
In Niigata Prefecute, which is known as Japan's major agricultural district, the number of farm households is on the downward tendency. The ratio of full-time farmers is decreasing, the scale of farming per household is becoming larger, and the number of farmhouses with supplementary incomes from non-agricultural businesses are growing fastly.
Amid increasing trend of farm management toward complexity, women play a large role, accounting nearly 60 percent of the total number of those engaged in agriculture in Niigata Prefecture. Production structure, life style, working conditions and everything have changed drastically.
Such being the situation, it is worth while to try an investigation into the actual conditions of health and labor of women farmers, and to shed light on health-injurious factors and work loads.
We have selected communities so as to obtain a cross section of the farming areas of Niigata, which consists of a large plain called Japan's rice producing center, mountainous districts covered with snow for one-trird of a year, and suburban areas.
