A Study on Evaluation of Risk Factors in Daily Emergency Using the Call-Out Records of the Osaka City Emergency Services

Abstract eng:
There are many accidents in dwellings that can be classified as daily disasters, and in such accidents over 10,000 persons lose their lives every year in Japan. The overwhelming majority of the casualties due to daily disasters are the elderly or over 65 years old. And the elderly are tend to get injured severely. These tendencies are also common with natural disasters. In this research, we examined the status of daily disasters in the elementary school districts, which form the base unit of human services by the public administration in Osaka using the call-out records of the Osaka City Emergency Service for the year 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2005. According to the occurrence and spread of the daily emergency in these areas for elementary school administrative districts with consideration to time of day, place of occurrence and ages, the results show that while emergency within home in the elderly occur highest in and around the inner city that in the infants (0-4-year-old) occur in and around the city.

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