Updated : September 27, 2023

The Department of Public Health

Supervisors

Tomoaki Imamura
Tetsuya Noda
Tomoya Myojin

Specialized Subjects

1. Area of public health:

• Analytic system development and epidemiological research using large-scale data (NDB*¹, KDB*², and DPC*³)
• Research on database (DB) linkage mainly in medicine, care, intractable diseases, and disabilities
• Research on food defense and food safety
• Research on risk communication in medicine, health, and food
• Research on medical and care services for the elderly based on health claim DB and long-term care insurance DB linkage

2. Area of health policy/health economics:

• Surveillance and policy proposals for medical and care service planning at the national and regional levels
• Research on the cost-effectiveness of medical services and health and the economics of diagnostic imaging equipment
• Research on hospital operations improvement
• Research on medical fees and break-even points in medical services
• Research on collaboration between medical and care services in hospital discharge support
• Research on task shifting in medical services

*1 National Database of Health Insurance Claims and Specific Health Checkups of Japan

*2 Kokuho Database

*3 Diagnosis Procedure Combination

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