History of japanese migration: a contribution to the comprehension of enviromental factions in the chronic and degenerative diseases

Abstract

Taking as premise the understanding that the study concerning the morbimortality of migrant populations may bring contributions to a better comprehension of the diseases' epidemiology, mainly the chronic-degenerative ones, the mortality experience in a population formed by people born in Japan, but living in the state of Paraná comparatively to the one in Japan. The obtained results make it possible to assert a deviation from the pattern of issei mortality when compared to their origin country and a sensitive approximation to the pattern of the destination place. Such observations suggest influence of socio-cultural factors, mainly of the dietary habits, in the showed profile.