著者

李 青雅 古郡 鞆子

出版者

生活経済学会

雑誌

生活経済学研究 (ISSN:13417347)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.36, pp.85-95, 2012-09-30 (Released:2016-11-30)

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The prevalence of obesity has become a serious, worldwide public health problem. Its main cause is in the change of lifestyle having been brought by technological innovations in the fields of food production and processing, distribution systems, computer and information technologies, means of transportation, etc. Obesity raises problems in health care, medical spending, labor market, quality of life, and other areas. Using a panel data in Japan and analyzing effects of overweight and obesity on physical and mental health, we found the following: 1) obesity influences physical and mental health negatively; 2) the effect appears more on physical health than mental health; 3) men tend to be affected physically more than mentally and women mentally more than physically; and 4) the effects of overweight and obesity are noticeable more on workers than non-workers and more on employees than self-employed. Obesity is a problem of dietary habit on one hand and that of social structures on the other. There are many actual and foreseeable problems to be solved to prevent obesity and cope with obesity-related issues. Physical and mental health problem dealt with in this paper is one of them when the number of overweight especially for men in Japan shows a steady growth.

著者

古郡 鞆子 松浦 司 李 青雅

出版者

中央大学

雑誌

基盤研究(C)

巻号頁・発行日

2009

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世界に広がる肥満化現象の実状、肥満の背景にある社会・経済的環境についての把握と考察をし、肥満が日常生活や仕事(雇用、賃金、その他の待遇)、医療費や社会保障などに与える影響を経済学の立場から分析した。肥満は、保健衛生面では汚名やいじめ、がんや生活習慣病の発症、短命、医療・医療費の増大、労働面では生産性の低下や採用・職種・賃金・昇進等での差別の問題を生んでいる。そのそれぞれを通し、肥満が社会に与える影響の分析を行い、健康な生活の維持、肥満予防・対策に関する考察と提言を行った。