On Sunday, August 29, 2021, Naoki Kondo will speak at the Clinical Research Summer Seminar on “Medical Care and Its Evaluation Focusing on Patients’ Isolation, Loneliness, and Poverty.
News
Media Coverage: Isolation and Loneliness are a Matter of Life: The Challenge of “Social Prescription” to Invite Patients into the Circle of People in the Community, and Whether “Social Prescription” Will Become a System to Heal Loneliness and Isolation: Trials Starting in Japan (Naoki Kondo)
An article by Naoki Kondo (Professor) was published on Buzzfeed.
1. Isolation and loneliness are a matter of life. The challenge of “social prescription” that invites patients into the circle of people in the community Published on July 17, 2021
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jp/naokikondo1/social-prescribing-1
2. Will “Social Prescription” Become a System to Heal Loneliness and Isolation? A Trial Started in Japan Published on July 18, 2021
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jp/naokikondo1/social-prescribing-2
Elected to the Board of Directors of the Japanese Epidemiological Association (Kondo)
Naoki Kondo (Professor) has been elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the Japanese Society of Epidemiology.
Term of office: General meeting of members to be held in 2022 – General meeting of members to be held in 2024.
News: [Collaboration] McCann Health Japan obtains evidence for the world’s first “dementia prediction model using voice data of daily conversation.”
A paper (co-authored by Kondo Laboratory and McCann Health Japan) was published in a peer-reviewed academic journal in PR TIMES.
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000035.000027750.html
A Shimoda, L Yue, H Hayashi, N Kondo. Dementia risks identified by vocal features via telephone conversatons: a novel machine learning prediction model. PLOS ONE. 2021;16(7):e0253988. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253988
News: Joint research agreement signed with Kitanihon Computer Service Co., Ltd.
We have signed a joint research agreement with Kitanihon Computer Service Co., Ltd.
We will conduct research on the “Development of a Health Management Support System for Welfare Recipients”.
Kitanihon Computer Service Co., Ltd.
https://www.kitacom.co.jp/
Special Research Student Mariko Kanamori’s paper was published in several newspapers.
Special research student Mariko Kanamori’s paper has been published in several newspapers.
Newly published papers: Saga Shimbun, Ryukyu Shimpo, Chukoku Shimbun SELECT, Shimono Shimbun, Kahoku Shimpo, Chubu Keizai Shimbun
Ms. Mariko Kanamori, a veterinarian and a graduate student at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, who is a member of the team, said, “Farming is a job that requires a lot of mutual help in the community. If there are few peers in the community, it may be difficult to help each other, which may affect mental health. I think it is necessary to enhance the system to help each other across the region.
Previous article
https://socepi.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/blogs/2306
Serial article: Vol. 5 Using multivariate regression models for causal inference (The Igaku Kaisha Shimbun, Assistant Professor Inoue)
The latest installment of “Lecture on Causal Inference for Clinical and Epidemiological Research,” a series of articles by Assistant Professor Kosuke Inoue, has been published in Igakukai Shimbun.
Vol. 5 Using multivariate regression models for causal inference (from Weekly Igakukai Shimbun (regular issue) No. 3431, August 02, 2021)
https://www.igaku-shoin.co.jp/paper/archive/y2021/3431_04
Kosuke Inoue’s website is here: http://labusers.net/~kinoue/
Media publication: People with depressive tendencies due to coronary heart disease tend to consume less fruits and vegetables
A joint research paper with Link and Communication Inc. was introduced in @DIME.
Published on July 25, 2021
Report: List of papers read by lab members between April and July
From April to July, our lab members read these papers.
Tangari G, Ikram M, Ijaz K, Kaafar MA, Berkovsky S. Mobile health and
privacy: cross sectional study. BMJ. 2021 Jun 16;373:n1248. doi:
10.1136/bmj.n1248. PMID: 34135009; PMCID: PMC8207561.
Marsh AD, Muzigaba M, Diaz T, Requejo J, Jackson D, Chou D, Cresswell
JA, Guthold R, Moran AC, Strong KL, Banerjee A, Soucat A; Effective
Coverage Think Tank Group. Effective coverage measurement in maternal,
newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition: progress, future
prospects, and implications for quality health systems. Lancet Glob
Health. 2020 May;8(5):e730-e736. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30104-2.
PMID: 32353320; PMCID: PMC7196884.
Cole SR, Edwards JK, Greenland S. Surprise! Am J Epidemiol. 2021 Feb
1;190(2):191-193. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwaa136. PMID: 32648906; PMCID:
PMC7850156.
Rothman KJ. Rothman Responds to “Surprise!”. Am J Epidemiol. 2021 Feb
1;190(2):194-195. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwaa137. PMID: 33524113.
Galea S, Hernán MA. Win-Win: Reconciling Social Epidemiology and
Causal Inference. Am J Epidemiol. 2020 Mar 2;189(3):167-170. doi:
10.1093/aje/kwz158. PMID: 31579911; PMCID: PMC7443199.
Park JJ, Coumbe BG, Park EH, Tse G, Subramanian SV, Chen JT.
Dispelling the nice or naughty myth: retrospective observational study
of Santa Claus. BMJ. 2016 Dec 14;355:i6355. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i6355.
PMID: 27974338; PMCID: PMC5156612.
Soga, Masashi, and Kevin J. Gaston. “Extinction of experience: the
loss of human–nature interactions.” Frontiers in Ecology and the
Environment 14.2 (2016): 94-101.
Inoue K, Nianogo R, Telesca D, Goto A, Khachadourian V, Tsugawa Y,
Sugiyama T, Mayeda ER, Ritz B. Low HbA1c levels and all-cause or
cardiovascular mortality among people without diabetes: the US
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2015. Int J
Epidemiol. 2020 Dec 30:dyaa263. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyaa263. Epub ahead
of print. PMID: 33378417.
Glymour MM, Weuve J, Berkman LF, Kawachi I, Robins JM. When is
baseline adjustment useful in analyses of change? An example with
education and cognitive change. Am J Epidemiol. 2005 Aug
1;162(3):267-78. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwi187. Epub 2005 Jun 29. PMID:
15987729.
Westreich D, Greenland S. The table 2 fallacy: presenting and
interpreting confounder and modifier coefficients. Am J Epidemiol.
2013 Feb 15;177(4):292-8. doi: 10.1093/aje/kws412. Epub 2013 Jan 30.
PMID: 23371353; PMCID: PMC3626058.
Baiocchi M, Cheng J, Small DS. Instrumental variable methods for
causal inference. Stat Med. 2014 Jun 15;33(13):2297-340. doi:
10.1002/sim.6128. Epub 2014 Mar 6. Erratum in: Stat Med. 2014 Nov
30;33(27):4859-60. Erratum in: Stat Med. 2019 Sep 10;38(20):3960.
Erratum in: Stat Med. 2020 Sep 10;39(20):2693. PMID: 24599889; PMCID:
PMC4201653.
Sharifi A, Khavarian-Garmsir AR. The COVID-19 pandemic: Impacts on
cities and major lessons for urban planning, design, and management.
Sci Total Environ. 2020 Dec 20;749:142391. doi:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.14239
PMCID: PMC7499053.
van Wijngaarden E, Leget C, Goossensen A. Ready to give up on life:
The lived experience of elderly people who feel life is completed and
no longer worth living. Soc Sci Med. 2015 Aug;138:257-64. doi:
10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.05.01
Publication notice: White Paper on Social Prescribing (Orange Cross)
The “White Paper on Social Prescribing,” written in part by Naoki Kondo and Daisuke Nishioka of our department, has been published.
Some of the people who visit medical institutions have various social issues.
Social prescribing” has been attracting attention as an approach to addressing such issues.
This white paper examines how “social prescriptions” can be tailored to the actual situation in Japan.
It is rich in data and illustrations. We hope you will find it useful.
Orange Cross Japan Foundation Project to Study the Japanese Version of “Social Prescription” (website)
White Paper on Social Prescription (PDF)
Reference
Nishioka, Daisuke; Kondo, Naoki. Literature review on cases and effects of social prescribing: Possibilities and challenges of how to deal with patients’ social issues in Japan. Medicine and Society, 2020, 29.4: 527-544.
Available at (in Japanese): https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/iken/29/4/29_2020.002/_pdf
Daisuke Nishioka s website is here.