High check-up rates in Tohoku, etc.
Check-up rates are higher for men (61.5%) than for women (50.7%). By prefecture, check-up rates are relatively high in Tohoku, etc. (Figure 37).

Figure 37: Health check-up rates (by prefecture)
(1) Women

(2) Men

Notes:

Hyogo Prefecture has not conducted this survey.

Source:

Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions of the People on Health and Welfare (1995), Ministry of Health and Welfare

Maternal and child health-related indexesThe infant mortality rate was 3.8% (ratio to 1000 births) in 1996, with the neonatal mortality rate at 2.0% (ratio to 1000 births) and the perinatal mortality rate at 6.7% (ratio to 1000 births), while the maternal mortality rate was 5.8% (ratio to 100,000 births). Maternal and child health-related indexes such as infant and perinatal mortality rates, which are strongly affected by the mother's state of health and the conditions in which a child is raised, are all falling.