Report: Forum for Building a Town of Health and Longevity. Special Lecture: “The ‘Connection’ You Create is the Medicine – The Secret of Building a Healthy Town in Mifune-cho” (Professor. Kondo)

Naoki Kondo gave a special lecture on November 19, 2021 at the “Forum for Building a Community of Healthy and Longevity – “Mifune-cho” Fostering Community Connections and Mutual Support”, which was held in conjunction with Mifune-cho, Kumamoto Prefecture.

Mifune-cho, Kumamoto Prefecture, is a municipality that JAGES Organization, of which Kondo is a board member, is providing support for.

Media coverage:The journal of Public health Practice “Health Promotion through Nudge: Key Points and Cautions for Effective and Sustainable Health Promotion” (Professor. Kondo)

Naoki Kondo’s article, “Nudge for Health Promotion: Key Points and Cautions for Effective and Sustainable Health Promotion,” has been published in the December 2021 The journal of Public Health Practice.

Igaku Shoin Co. The journal of Public health Practice.  Dec. 2021 issue

Serial Report: No. 8 Focus on differences in the effects of different groups. (The Medical News, Assistant Professor Inoue)

The latest issue of “Lecture on Causal Inference for Clinical and Epidemiological Research,” a series of articles by Kosuke Inoue, has been published in the Medical News.

No. 8 Focus on differences in the effects of different groups (2021.11.1 Weekly Medical News(Usual number) From No.3443)

Click here for Kosuke Inoue’s website.

Media Coverage: Contribution to the October 2021 issue of Governance Monthly, “The Potential of Social Prescription and the Role of Municipality: Connect Beyond Vertical Divisions” (Researcher Nishioka)

Daisuke Nishioka (Research Fellow) contributed to the October 2021 issue of Governance Monthly. In “Carisupport”, a special feature aimed at improving the skills of local government officials, the possibility of Municipality officials as practitioners of social prescription is introduced under the theme of “The Possibility of Social Prescription and the Role of Local Municipality”. published on September 28, 2021.

Special Feature: Municipal Planning for COVID-19 pandemic.

●”Carisupport” Special Feature.

The key is “connection”!  “The Potential of “Social Prescription”

▪️The Potential of Social Prescription and the Role of Municipality: Connect Beyond Vertical Divisions/ Daisuke Nishioka.

In social prescribing, it is important to collaborate with various professionals and departments involved in the lives of residents. In addition, the place where residents’ difficulties are discovered is not necessarily in the field of health care. All local government officials who have opportunities to come into contact with residents are practitioners of social prescription.

Gyousei Co.Monthly Governance, October 2021, is  here.

 

Media Coverage: Monthly / Journal of Health Insurance and Medical Practice, October 2021, Trilogy “Questioning Poverty and Medical/Health Disparities” (Professor Kondo)

The trilogy “Questioning Poverty and Medical/Health Disparities” moderated by Naoki Kondo was published in Monthly/Journal of Health Insurance and Medical Practice on October 10, 2021.

Special Feature: Poverty and Health Care: The Reality of Medical and Health Disparities in Japan, a Country of Great Poverty

Trilogy: Questioning Poverty,and Medical /Health Disparities: We will examine the current state of poverty in Japan, the resulting situation in the medical field, and the reality of medical and health disparities, and discuss fundamental solutions to these problems.

Click here for the October 2021 issue of Igaku Tsushinsha Co. Monthly/Journal of Health Insurance and Medical Practice.

Differences in depressive symptoms by rurality in Japan: a cross-sectional multilevel study using different aggregation units of municipalities and neighborhoods (JAGES)

A new paper has been published by International Journal of Health Geographic.

Mariko Kanamori, Masamichi Hanazato, Daisuke Takagi,Katsunori Kondo,Toshiyuki Ojima, Airi Amemiya, and Naoki Kondo.(2021).Differences in depressive symptoms by rurality in Japan: a cross-sectional multilevel study using different aggregation units of municipalities and neighborhoods (JAGES).International Journal of Health Geographic.20(1):42. doi: 10.1186/s12942-021-00296-8.

News: 【Report】Article on the pedometer app “Pacific League Walk” by a research team led by part-time lecturer Masamitsu Kamada of the University of Tokyo published in “Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise”

A research team led by Dr. Masamitsu Kamata, a lecturer at the University of Tokyo (part-time lecturer at our department), has compiled a paper on the verification of “Pacific League Walk,” a pedometer application that allows users to support the six Pacific League professional baseball teams by the number of steps they take each day, and the paper was published in the American academic journal “Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.”

The app is the official app of the six Pacific League baseball teams, and was released free of charge in March 2016. It has won the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare’s Excellence Award (Group Category) at “the 9th Let’s Increase Healthy Life Expectancy! Award” .

The paper (open access) is here.

Large-Scale Fandom-based Gamification Intervention to Increase Physical Activity. Masamitsu Kamada, Hana Hayashi et al.
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Publish Ahead of Print, 8 2021

“U.S. academic journal publishes paper examining ‘Pacific League Walk’ as ‘new value to society'” | Full-Count

「パ・リーグウォーク」の検証論文が米学術誌に掲載「社会へ新しい価値を」

A paper examining the “Pacific League Walk” is published in the Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine – Professional Baseball : Nikkan Sports.

https://www.nikkansports.com/baseball/news/202108300000412.html

Validation paper on the pedometer app “Pacific League Walk” published in the official journal of the American College of Sports Medicine |BASEBALL KING

https://baseballking.jp/ns/293419

Article on the effectiveness of the pedometer app “Pacific League Walk” published in the official journal of the American College of Sports Medicine-Sponich Sponichi Annex Baseball

https://www.sponichi.co.jp/baseball/news/2021/08/30/kiji/20210830s00001173475000c.html

Article on the effectiveness of the pedometer app “Pacific League Walk” published in the Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine.|Sports hochi

https://hochi.news/articles/20210830-OHT1T51155.html

News: 【Report】Kosuke Inoue (Assistant Professor) announced the research result “Urinary Stress Hormones, Hypertension, and Cardiovascular Events: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis” to the press

Kosuke Inoue made a press release online on September 27, 2021 on the results of a study showing the above relationship.

The results were published online in the international journal “Hypertension” on September 13, 2021, and have been covered by the U.S. media, including CNN.

For more information, please see the press release.

Click here to visit Kosuke Inoue’s website.