INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH (NO.2)

FACTORANALYTICAL RESEARCH BY RURAL AND URBAN IN NAGANO PREFECTURE

Abstract

I. We made a factoranalytical research of these indicators by Thurstone's centroid method and extracted four common factors.
II. We calculated the Z-scores (I) of the above 19 variables which were closely related with four common factors and the Z-scores (II) of the another 5 variables by urban and rural which were live birth rate, premature infant birth rate, infant mortality rate, α-index and maternal death rate, and computed the cofficient of correlation between the Z-scores (I) and the Z-scores (II), and investigated the influence of environmental factors on maternal and child health.