Outline of the National Health and Nutrition Survey Japan, 2004
Outline for the Results of the National Health and Nutrition Survey Japan, 2004 This report was prepared by National Institute of Health and Nutrition as a summary English report of the National Health and Nutrition Survey conducted by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in 2004. Outline of the Survey 1. Purpose of the Survey This survey, based on the Health Promotion Law (Law No. 103, enacted in 2002), aims to ascertain the actual state of health, food intake, nutritional intake, and lifestyles of the Japanese people and to obtain basic data for implementing effective measures for health improvement, etc. 2. Survey Subjects The survey was conducted on members of households aged one year and over (as of November 1, 2004) within the selected district, based on “Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions of the people on Health and Welfare (2004)”. Subjects of the survey are approximately 15,000 members of about 5,000 households within 300 districts. Subjects were selected by stratified random sampling out of the selected districts, based on “Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions of the people on Health and Welfare (2004). However, the survey could not be conducted in 2 of the 300 districts because of the Niigata Prefecture Chuetsu Earthquake (Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake) that occurred in October 2004. 3. Grouping of Subjects Grouping by Regional Block The whole nation is classified into 12 regional blocks as shown in the following table. Regional Block Name of Prefecture Hokkaido Hokkaido Tohoku Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata, Fukushima Kanto Ⅰ Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa Kanto Ⅱ Ibaragi, Tochigi, Gunma, Yamanashi, Nagano Hokuriku Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui Tokai Gifu, Aichi, Mie, Shizuoka Kinki Ⅰ Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo Kinki Ⅱ Nara, Wakayama, Shiga Tyugoku Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi Shikoku Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, Kochi Kita (Northern) Kyushu Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Ooita Minami (Southern) Kyushu Kumamoto, Miyazaki, Kagoshima, Okinawa.
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