浜松市居民有最長健康寿命

A few weeks ago the Asahi News on-line reported the following:

健康寿命、浜松市が１位　最も短いのは…　大都市別集計

辻外記子

2014年5月27日10時03分

　「健康寿命」の２０大都市別データを厚生労働省研究班（主任研究者＝橋本修二・藤田保健衛生大教授）がまとめた。２０１０年時点で最も長いのは男女とも浜松市で、最も短いのは男性が大阪市、女性は堺市だった。これまでは都道府県別しかなかった。

　健康寿命は、生活に支障なく過ごせる期間の平均を示している。７５万人を抽出した厚労省の国民生活基礎調査で、「健康上の問題で日常生活に影響がない」と答えた人の割合から計算する。厚労省は、平均寿命（１０年は男性７９・５５歳、女性８６・３歳）との差を縮めることを目指している。

　研究班が集計した２０大都市別データによると、健康寿命が１位の浜松市は男性７２・９８歳、女性７５・９４歳。２０番目は大阪市の男性６８・１５歳、堺市の女性７１・８６歳だった。都道府県別のトップは、男性が愛知の７１・７４歳、女性が静岡の７５・３２歳。

　都市別では健康寿命の最長と最短の差が男性では４・８３歳あり、都道府県別の２・７９歳より大きかった。

　研究班の辻一郎・東北大教授（公衆衛生学）は「都道府県別では、浜松市のある静岡県など健康寿命が長いところは就業率が高く、喫煙率は低い傾向があった。都市別では地域の特徴がより出やすいため、健康寿命に何が影響しているのかを探りたい」と話す。

　研究班は、同じ県でも地域によって異なることや、都市別も知りたいという要望を受け、１０年時点の政令指定都市と東京都区部の２０都市で集計したという。（辻外記子）

(試譯文)

     The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s study group (chief researcher - Professor Shuji Hashimoto of the Fujita Health University) gathered the data on 20 big cities of "Healthy Life Expectancy", Hamamatsu had the longest both for man and woman as of 2010. As for the shortest one, it was the man in Osaka and woman in Sakai. Until now there was no study on individual prefectures.

     Healthy life expectancy showed the average period which one could live a life without handicapped. Based on the National Livelihood Survey of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare 750,000 people were picked to calculate the percentage of the people who answered "the problem of health do not affect everyday life". The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare aimed at closing the gap between life expectancy (in 2010 were 79.55 years old for man, and 86.3 years old for women) and healthy life expectancy.

     According to the data from the 20 big cities which the study group gathered together, at the 1st place was Hamamatsu; the healthy life expectancy was 72.98 years old for man and 75.94 years old for women. At the 20th place for man was Osaka at 68.15 years old and for women was Sakai at 71.86 years old. According to all prefectures, Aichi was at the top for male at 71.74 years old and Shizuoka for the woman at 75.32 years old.

     By cities, the biggest difference between the longest healthy life expectancy and the shortest for male was 4.83 years old, 2.79 years more than the figures by prefectures.

     The study group's professor Ichiro Tsuji of Tohoku University (Public Health Study) said "by prefectures, those places that have healthy life expectancy such as Shizuoka Prefecture where Hamamatsu is located, the labor-force participation ratio is high, and the smoking rate tendency is low. By cities, since the features of the area are easily available then by prefectures, he would like to explore what have influenced the healthy life expectancy".

     For the Study group, it was said there was a desire to know the difference between areas within the same prefecture, and the difference by city based on the aggregated total for the 2010 ordinance-designated cities and the 20 cities of the Tokyo ward.

A city that has a healthy life expectancy of 72.98 years old for man and 75.94 years old for women is impressive.