Department of Social Epidemiology
Graduate School of Medicine and School of Public Health, Kyoto University
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.
Research by Kondo’s collaborator Dr. Masashige Saito (Associate Professor at Nihon Fukushi University) was broadcast on NHK General on 20 October 2021.
Broadcast date: Wednesday, 20 October 2021, 6:53-7:00
Program name: NHK General “News for Tokai 3 prefectures
Content : Elderly people’s care costs significantly reduced by social participation such as hobbies and work
A project led by Kondo, entitled “Hybrid Care Network with ‘Anywhere Door’ for Local Communities,” has been selected by the Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX).
JST press release in Japanese
https://www.jst.go.jp/pr/info/info1535/index.html
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.
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.
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. 7 Dealing with exposure changes over time (2021.10.4 Weekly Medical News(Usual number) ：From No.3439)
Click here for Kosuke Inoue’s website.
We have started a joint research project with Nomura Securities Co.,Ltd.
We will conduct “Research on solutions to social issues in post-COVID-19”.
Click here for the press release of Nomura Securities Co.,Ltd.
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
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
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.
Our laboratory has been conducting research using data from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES). Professor Katsunori Kondo (Chiba University), who acts as the representative director of JAGES, will speak at the 27th Symposium of the Institute for Health Economics and Policy and introduce the efforts and results of JAGES.
Date and time: October 22, 2021(Fri), 13:00-16:00 (login starts at 12:30)
Theme: “Frailty Prevention in the Age of Covid19” – Toward a New Paradigm for Health Promotion Policy in a Super-Aging Society
Method: Online only
Participation fee: Free of charge for supporting members, 3,000 yen for general public (advance transfer, non-refundable).
application deadline: October 15, 2021 (Fri)
The 27th Symposium of the Institute for Health Economics and Policy