title: [Disease structure of day-labourers from clinical records of a clinic in Kitakyushu].
abstract: For the purpose of the observation of disease structure of day-labourers, clinical records of a private S-Clinic whose specialties was internal medicine and gastroenterology were adopted. This clinic stands in an area where there are many boarding houses for day-labourers in Kitakyushu. Disease structures of the persons insured with Day Labourers Health Insurance (D. L. H. I.) were compared to those of the persons insured with another medical insurance from clinical records in 1977, 1980 and 1983. In result, the followings were noted. 1) The persons insured with D. L. H. I. were 29 males and 11 females in 1977, 24 males and 5 females in 1980, and 10 males and 11 females in 1983. Proportion of the number of the persons insured with D. L. H. I. in S-Clinic was higher than that of Japan. 2) The mean age of the person insured with D. L. H. I. was slightly higher than that with another medical insurance. Especially there were many females in an age group of 65 to 69 years old. 3) In the observation for the persons insured with D. L. H. I. compared to those with another medical insurance, the mean number of first visits was relatively small in 1980 (both male and female) and in 1983 (male), but the mean number of diseases per first visit was relatively large. The most of all kinds of diseases of first visits was the digestive system, the second was the respiratory system and the third was the circulatory system, being similar to the persons insured with another medical insurance.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009017:Morbidity; D009790:Occupations