Toshikatsu Oda

Kobe University | Shindai

This study investigated the relationships among lifestyle, functional capacity and social attributes that influenced independence over a period of 2 years. The subjects were 223 elderly people (average age:76.4 years) living on Amami Island who were independent in Instrumental Activities of daily Living (IADL) at the baseline survey conducted in 20...

This study investigated the relationships among subjective view of health, motor ability , functional capacity, lifestyle and social attributes based on data obtained from community dwelling elderly persons. The number of elderly men and women participating in the study was 223 (average age: 76.4 years). The number of measurement items was 3 items...

This study investigated the relationships among lifestyle, motor ability, functional capacity and social attributes based on data obtained from community dwelling elderly persons. The number of elderly men and women participating in the study was 221 (average age: 76.5 years). Haga's Quesionaire-22 was used as an indicator of lifestyle, with 22 poi...

This paper investigated the relationship of lifestyle, motor ability and functional capacity based on the data obtained from community dwelling elderly persons in Kasari, Amami Island, Japan. The number of elderly men and women participaing in the study was 116 (average age: 78.1 years). The number of measurement items was 22 for lifestyle, 13 for...

The land development and settlement of Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA) of Malaysia is a quite project in South-east Asia for economic and social progress of rural sector. The process of the land development are examined and the degree of social adaptation of settlers in the schemes are measured by the use of the data obtained by the inte...

For the regions where the health resources are insufficient, it is the prime task to ensure a satisfactory level of them to promote rational regional health planning. In this paper the processes of health resources accumulation and allocation in Hokkaido, northern island of 5.4 million pop., are examined by the application of multiple regression an...

The volcanic activities of Mt. Usu caused various physical, economic and social damages on the community located near Mt. Usu. There were no injuries caused directly by the eruption. However, three hospitals including the core hospital of the community, were seriously damaged. This paper focuses on some of the negative effects on medical facilities...

The present paper, focusing on the change of the family role structure, describes how contraction of a chronical disease can be influential to one's family functions. The sick person inevitably declines or loses ability in role performances. Therefore, when the family has the sick, the role structure of family might change. That is, the family memb...