Department of Social Epidemiology
Graduate School of Medicine and School of Public Health, Kyoto University
Professor Kondo’s online roundtable discussion was featured in the September issue of “Community Health” published on September 1.
The September issue featured “Necessary Health Support for Children from Poor Families. The theme of the roundtable discussion was “Protecting the Health of Children from Poor Families: Towards Feasibility,” and five experts participated in the discussion.
The first meetings of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Health Promotion Plan 21 (Second Stage) Promotion Council and the Policy Review Subcommittee were held on July 9 and August 3, 2021, respectively, and the materials and minutes were published on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government website “Tokyo Kenko Station”. (The minutes of the first meeting of the Policy Review Subcommittee will be released at a later date).
・Tokyo Metropolitan Government Health Promotion Plan 21 (Second Stage) Promotion Council
About Tokyo Metropolitan Government Health Promotion Plan 21 (Second Stage)
Mifune Town, Kumamoto Prefecture, where the JAGES Organization, of which Naoki Kondo is a board member, is providing support, was awarded the “Healthy Aging Prize for Asian Innovation 2021: Best Domestic Case Study.”
Japan Center for International Exchange （JCIE)
2021.07.30 “Healthy Aging Prize for Asian Innovation 2021” Awarded Organizations
Japan domestic selection: Best case study
Mifune Town Hall (Kumamoto Prefecture) “Health and longevity strategy for primary health care through advanced use of data”
Professor.Naoki Kondo will speak at the symposium of the Society for Clinical Epidemiology The 4th Annual Meeting to be held on October 30, 2021.
Society of Clinical Epidemiology The 4th Annual Meeting
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Theme of the Meeting Returning to the starting point: Starting with the patient, returning to the patient
Dates: October 30 (Sat) – 31 (Sun), 2021
Venue: Online
Symposium (1)
Using Data to Improve the Health and Medical Care of Local Residents
October 30 (Sat) 15:45-17:05
Naoki KONDO (Kyoto University), Yukiko ITO (Tsuda University), Koji KAWAKAMI (Kyoto University)
The program is here.
Professor Kondo was appointed as a new member of the Uji City Council for Health Promotion and Dietary Education on May 1, 2021.
The term of office is from May 1, 2011 to March 31, 2022.
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Hakuhodo DY Holdings Inc.’s health management support program “Kenkisen Sen®”, for which our field is conducting joint research, has won the Silver Award in the “Inner Promotion Planning” category at the 19th JPM Planning Solution Awards.
The 19th JPM Planning Solution Awards 2021 Award Winning Entries!
https://jpm-inc.jp/news/planning-sa/2021-08-30-3392/
A new paper was published from Sci Sports Exerc.
Kamada M, Hayashi H, Shiba K, Taguri M, Kondo N, Lee IM, Kawachi I. Large-Scale Fandom-based Gamification Intervention to Increase Physical Activity: A Quasi-experimental Study. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2021 Aug. DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000002770 Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34366420.
Purpose: Gamification, the use of game design elements in nongame contexts, in combination with insights from behavioral economics has been applied increasingly to behavior change interventions. However, little is known about the effectiveness or scalability of this approach, especially in the long term. We tested a large-scale smartphone-based intervention to encourage physical activity among Japanese baseball fans using gamification techniques that leveraged fandom and inter-team competition inherent in sports.
Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted among fans of the Japanese Pacific League. The app, Pa-League Walk, included gamification elements, such as competition between opposing teams’ fans based on total daily step counts on game days (>60,000 free downloads since March 2016). We analyzed daily steps of 20,052 app users, supplemented by online survey data of 274 users and 613 matched controls. Difference-in-differences estimators evaluated change in daily steps before and after app installation in users versus matched controls.
Results: Users’ daily steps increased by 574 (95% confidence interval: 83, 1064) steps three months after installation, compared to controls. The increase was maintained for up to nine months (559 [99, 1018] more steps per day versus baseline), attenuating over a longer follow-up. Positive effect modification was found by high frequency of the app use (P < 0.001) but not by other covariables (P ≥ 0.14) such as education or income. Days with 10,000 steps achievement increased from 24.4% to 27.5% after the additional introduction of incentives (digital player photos) (P < 0.001).
Conclusion: Using existing fandom and solidarity, the gamification app increased physical activity at scale among baseball fans, including people with lower socioeconomic status under-represented in traditional health programs.
A new paper was published from Nihon Koshu Eisei Zasshi.
Objectives This study aims to evaluate the differences in the cumulative benefit costs of public long-term care [LTC] insurance services, using a risk assessment scale score, which predicts incident functional disability among older people.Methods A baseline survey was conducted in 2010 involving individuals aged 65 and above from 12 municipalities in Japan who were not eligible for public LTC insurance benefits (response rate: 64.7%). Using public LTC claim records, we followed LTC service costs among 46,616 individuals over a period of about six years (up to 76 months). We used risk assessment scales to assess incident functional disability (0-48). We adopted a classical linear regression model, Tobit regression model, and linear regression with multiple imputation for missing values.Results Overall, 7,348 (15.8%) of the participants had used LTC services during the follow-up period. The risk assessment score for incident functional disability was positively associated with the cumulative costs of LTC services per person, length of usage period of LTC services, and proportion of people certified for long-term care/support need and for over long-term care level 2. After adjusting for confounding variables, the six-year cumulative costs of LTC services were around JPY 31.6 thousand higher per point of risk score (95% confidence interval [CI]: 28.3 to 35.0). The costs were around JPY 8.9 thousand (95%CI: 6.5 to 11.3) higher in the low score group (risk score ≤ 16), and JPY 75.3 thousand (95%CI: 67.4 to 83.1) higher in the high score group (risk score ≥ 17). When we adopted other estimated models, the major results and trends were not largely different.Conclusions In this study, the risk assessment scale score could estimate subsequent LTC benefit costs. Community interventions to improve and maintain variable aspects of risk assessment scores may help contribute to a reduction in public LTC benefits within municipalities.
Keywords: leading indicator; long-term care benefit; long-term care prevention; long-term care receipt data; older adults; risk assessment scales for incident functional disability.
Research Fellow Daisuke Nishioka’s paper has been published in “Psychiatry”.
Daisuke Nishioka, Naoki Kondo. Possibility of “social prescription” in psychiatry. Psychiatry 39(1) 64 – 70
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