TY - GEN
T1 - Elucidating health determinant factors of housing and regional environment by conducting follow-up survey
AU - Ando, Shintaro
AU - Ikaga, Toshiharu
AU - Shiraishi, Yasuyuki
AU - Hoshi, Tanji
AU - Kawakubo, Shun
PY - 2012/12/1
Y1 - 2012/12/1
N2 - Improvement of living environment quality of life (QOL) is increasingly attracting attention as a factor in disease prevention. We administered questionnaires to adult residents of a suburb of Kitakyushu City, Japan, in October 2009 and October 2011, with the aim of evaluating chronological changes in resident health and changes in the housing and regional environment over those two years. Cause-and-effect relations were considered through structural equation modeling (SEM) using a cross-lagged effects model and a synchronous effects model. Analysis of the results indicates that the housing and regional environment affects resident health. The present study quantified living environment value according to reported resident satisfaction. In addition, further studies with an increased sample size may be beneficial. Topics for future research include evaluation using objective indicators to strictly elucidate the causal relationship between resident health and living environment.
AB - Improvement of living environment quality of life (QOL) is increasingly attracting attention as a factor in disease prevention. We administered questionnaires to adult residents of a suburb of Kitakyushu City, Japan, in October 2009 and October 2011, with the aim of evaluating chronological changes in resident health and changes in the housing and regional environment over those two years. Cause-and-effect relations were considered through structural equation modeling (SEM) using a cross-lagged effects model and a synchronous effects model. Analysis of the results indicates that the housing and regional environment affects resident health. The present study quantified living environment value according to reported resident satisfaction. In addition, further studies with an increased sample size may be beneficial. Topics for future research include evaluation using objective indicators to strictly elucidate the causal relationship between resident health and living environment.
KW - Cross-lagged effects model
KW - Questionnaire Survey
KW - Structural Equation Modelling
KW - Synchronous effects model
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84883341464
SN - 9781627480758
T3 - 10th International Conference on Healthy Buildings 2012
SP - 2587
EP - 2592
BT - 10th International Conference on Healthy Buildings 2012
T2 - 10th International Conference on Healthy Buildings 2012
Y2 - 8 July 2012 through 12 July 2012
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