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職場の健康づくり活動に関する一考察 : ヘルスケア・トレーナーの活動状況調査より
The purpose of this research is to clarify the actual situation on the health promotion activities in the Japanese worksites. We focused our investigation on the leaders called Health Care Trainer who undertake the main role in the worksite health promotion activities of the companies and sports clubs. The subjects of this survey were the Health Care Trainers registratered as members of Japan Industrial Safety and Health Association (JISHA). The questionnaire was consisted of five main items : 1. Styles of Health Care Trainers\u27 activities. 2. Smoking control programs. 3. Health check programs. 4. Back care programs. 5. Exercise and fitness programs. The results were as follows : Among the investigated Health Care Trainers, about 30 percent of them have no worksite health promotion activity after getting their license ; some of them didn\u27t have no opportunity to conduct that kind of program at the worksite ; others are now preparing to bring fitness programs for workers ; and also there are some Health Care Trainers who have no idea to guide workers thier health promotions. This seems a part of problem concerning the professinal leadership development and certification system in Japan. We can observe a important lack of leadership which would be expected for all of Health Care Trainers. This research revealed that 57.8 percent of Health Care Trainers\u27 worksites had a smoking control program. 48.2 percent of these Health Care Trainers have given to their perticipants some informations that smoking too much is harmful to his or her health. A smoking control program is not only to inform a worker to stop smoking but to advise him or her to taper down smoking. We suggest that Health Care Trainer should develop their several way of this program in different ways. The Health Care Trainers reported that 91.6 percent of the worksites had the a health check program. The Ministry of Labor and JISHA have distinguished this health check program from the medical check. JISHA\u27s functions are, in the one hand, to aid technically the health check and health guidance programs conducted by enterprises, in the other hand, to aid the setting up of equipments for the health promotion program which permit "Joint enterprises\u27 groups" to conduct the health promotions, practiced under the cooperation between the concerned enterprises and the outside health service organizaions. In order that the health check programs will be carried out not only in the physical area but also mental area, JISHA and the team managers of the worksite health promotion must recruit competent staffs immediatelly. 79.5 percent of the Health Care Trainers answered that they given a back care program. In Japan, many office workers suffer often from backache. Because they have been obliged the unnatural and forced postures during their work, the back care program should be developed as a check system with regard to their working times rather than for to other times. A exercise and fitness program reprensented 97.6 percent of all worksite health promotion activities. These programs should be managed and administrated by the Health Care Trainers. According to "JISHA-Trainig Text for Health Care Trainer", the trainer should understand the influence given by the lack of daily exercise and fitness activities. The hypokinetic disease leads the cardiovascular disease, obesity, arteriolosclerosis, high blood pressure, and so on. The Health Care Trainers must have knowledge by which they are able to make workers fun and to give them that important habit to continue their sport and recreation activities
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A study of a Japanese-American basketball league and the assimilation of its members into the mainstream of United States society
The present study was a modified replication of the two pioneer
works in the field of sport and ethnic groups by Pooley (1968)
and Tindall (1973). This study investigated whether participation in
an ethnic basketball league in Japanese-American communities affected
the rate of assimilation of two groups of Japanese-American, high-school
aged males. Test instruments consisted of a written questionnaire,
direct observations, and formal and informal focused
interviews. The data collection was conducted by the researcher
in the San Francisco Bay Area, California between December 26, 1982
and March 22, 1983.
The participant group consisted of fifty, 15-18 year old,
Japanese-American male participants in the East Bay Youth Athletic
League (EBYAL) during 1982-83. The non-participant group was comprised
of thirty-six, 15-18 year old, Japanese-American males who
never participated in the EBYAL. All subjects were volunteers.
The questionnaire, based on Tindall's instrument, was
designed to measure six dimensions of assimilation of members of
the two groups. Additional data on the participants in EBYAL
regarding the six assimilation dimensions were obtained using
formal interviews with team representatives, coaches, league executives,
and randomly selected participants. In order to assess
the rate of assimilation and the social, psychological, and cultural
attributes of the participants, direct observations and
informal focused interviews were conducted with the people involved
in the EBYAL.
The questionnaire was distributed to participants and nonparticipants.
The return rate of the questionnaire was 80.2%,
One main hypothesis and several sub-hypotheses were formulated.
The hypotheses were tested using a one-tailed Student's
t-test and/or a one-tailed chi-square test. Significance was
sought at the .05 level of confidence for all hypotheses.
The results of this study indicated that participation in the
EBYAL did not appear to promote overall assimilation of its members
into the mainstream of American life. Participation in ethnic sport
clubs seemed to be an index of ethnic solidarity rather than a causal
factor influencing the assimilation processes of this Japanese-
American sample. The present study also found that complete acculturation
has not taken place among the Yonsei, the fourth generation
Japanese-Americans