2447 - Can Promoting Use of Public Transportation Improve People’s Health? - Relationship Analysis Among Health, Lifestyle and Transportation Habit Considering Gender Difference

Publication date: June 2018Source: Journal of Transport & Health, Volume 9, SupplementAuthor(s): Yusuke Kanda, Daisuke Akagi, Ayako TaniguchiIt is often said that lifestyle is quite important for better health. Especially, improvement of physical activity level brings better effects on individual’s health condition. Non-car transportation use such as walk, bicycle, and public transportation provides more opportunity to exercise. It means that promoting of non-car use may improve people’s health. However, in the context of limited availability of statistical data for analysis, its possibility has not been discussed deeply and clearly in Japan.This research aims to identify relationship focusing on people’s transportation habit and health, especially considering difference between male and female. In particular, with health index data such as life expectancy, medical cost per capita, morbidity and mortality of lifestyle-related disease, and lifestyle index such as vegetable, alcohol intake and smoking habit, and transportation habit index such as share of car / public transportation / bicycle mode on commuting and average daily walk steps. The authors analyze these relationship with these data aggregated in almost all Japanese prefectures (regions) unit by correlation and regression analysis, As a result, significant relationship is identified between some health indexes and lifestyle indexes, in particular, life expectancy, medical cost per capita and morbidity of severa...
Source: Journal of Transport and Health - Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research