Pearson correlation coefficients of healthcare, urban residential, and socioeconomic indicators and health determinants indices
Indicators | Health determinants indices |
Healthcare resources | |
Number of hospitals and clinics per population | 0.899 |
Number of hospitals per population | 0.505 |
Number of general hospitals per population | 0.377 |
Number of clinics per population | 0.867 |
Number of dental clinics per population | 0.818 |
Number of hospital and clinic beds per population | 0.474 |
Number of beds in general hospitals and clinics per population | 0.546 |
Number of hospitals and clinics per habitable land | 0.546 |
Number of clinics per habitable land | 0.534 |
Number of dental clinics per habitable land | 0.439 |
Number of medical doctors per population | 0.775 |
Number of dentists per population | 0.764 |
Number of pharmacists per population | 0.783 |
Percentage of households less than 500 m to the nearest medical facilities | 0.476 |
Preventive activity | |
Participation rate to general health check up | 0.348 |
Participation rate to health check up of stomach cancer | 0.799 |
Participation rate to health check up of lung cancer | 0.569 |
Participation rate to health check up of cervical cancer | 0.497 |
Number of public health nurses per population | 0.410 |
Number of community welfare volunteer per population | 0.472 |
School meal provision at junior high school | 0.487 |
Environmental quality | |
Percentage of houses which have sunshine at least 5 hours a day | 0.740 |
Normalised difference vegetation index area averaged by a circle of 3 km radius | 0.854 |
Normalised difference vegetation index area averaged by a circle of 10 km radius | 0.958 |
Normalised difference vegetation index area averaged by a circle of 19 km radius | 0.933 |
Index of higher nitrogenoxide measurement | −0.922 |
98% value of the daily average of nitrogenoxide | −0.914 |
Housing | |
Percentage of houses constructed after 1975 | 0.953 |
Index of newer houses | 0.973 |
Percentage of houses not facing at least 2 m width | 0.480 |
Percentage of houses with flush toilet | 0.426 |
Sewer diffusion rate | 0.266 |
Urban clutter | |
Length of road per total land area | 0.719 |
Length of road per habitable land area | 0.635 |
Number of goods vans per kilometer of road | 0.817 |
Number of cars per kilometer of road | 0.819 |
Percentage of houses less than 1 km away from railway station and less than 500 m away from bus stop | 0.636 |
Percentage of houses less than 50 m away from road of more than 6 m width | 0.536 |
Percentage of non-wooden houses | 0.462 |
Percentage of city planning area | 0.451 |
Households in apartment flats with 6 or more floors | 0.816 |
Education | |
Age adjusted years of education (male) | 0.946 |
Age adjusted years of education (female) | 0.942 |
Average years of education of male aged 25–29 | 0.918 |
Local budget for education per population | 0.376 |
Local budget for education per population aged 5–19 | 0.403 |
Employment | |
Male workforce enrolment as percentage of male aged 15–65 | 0.857 |
Female workforce enrolment as percentage of female aged 15–65 | 0.780 |
Workforce enrolment as percentage of population aged 15–65 | 0.908 |
Unemployment rate | −0.638 |
Unemployment rate among population aged 20–24 | −0.654 |
Unemployment rate among population aged 60–64 | −0.644 |
Manufacturing industry workers as percentage of total work force | 0.502 |
Wholesale, retail trade, and eating establishment workers as percentage of total work force | −0.323 |
Professional and technical workers as percentage of total workforce | −0.333 |
Managers and officials as percentage of total workforce | −0.239 |
Family expenses for meat consumption adjusted by the area difference of food consumption | −0.383 |
Income | |
Per capita income | 0.896 |
Average annual earnings per household | 0.812 |
Standardised deviation of average annual earnings per household | 0.876 |
Per capita balance of savings | 0.736 |
Per capita value of housing and land property | 0.845 |
Per capita value of consumer durables | 0.684 |
Local economy | |
Growth rate of number of establishments | 0.805 |
Growth rate of total work force | 0.791 |
Medium to large scale establishments (5 and more employees) as percentage of all businesses | 0.733 |
Local government financial index | 0.697 |
local tax revenue as proportion to the total amount of revenue to the local government | 0.730 |
Indicators having statistically significant correlation (p<0.01) with individual health determining factors are listed. Other indicators used to formulate individual health determining factors were: family expenses for fish consumption adjusted by the area difference of food consumption for employment; indoor swimming pool with courses of 25 m and more per population for healthcare resources; school meal provision at elementary school for preventive activities; and number of public health nurses per clinical nurses for preventive activities.