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Health Inequalities in Japan brings together the expertise of Japan's leading social epidemiologists in English for the first time. Providing a balanced perspective on the determinants of wellbeing and illness, it gives a valuable insight into the epidemiological underpinnings of one of the world's healthiest populaces.
List of contents
- 1: Eric Brunner, Noriko Cable, and Hiroyasu Iso: Excellent population health, low economic growth
- Part 1. Health and health inequalities across the life course
- 2: Sachiko Baba and Hiroyasu Iso: Women, men, and the missing babies
- 3: Kaori Honjo: Gender inequalities in Japan: gender division of labour and health
- 4: Takeo Fujiwara, Nobutoshi Nawa, and Yusuke Matsuyama: Child health in Japan
- 5: Noriko Cable, Michikazu Sekine, and Shinsuke Koike: Family, community and mental well-being
- 6: Akizumi Tsutsumi: Japan's miracle decades: harmony, hard work, and health
- 7: Mariko Inoue: Work and health in a diverse and disparate labour market
- 8: Hideki Hashimoto, Yoshiharu Fukuda, and Eric Brunner: Health and financial sustainability in ageing Japan
- 9: Katsunori Kondo: Dementia and healthy ageing in older people
- 10: Ayako Hiyoshi and Naoki Kondo: Historical overview of Japanese society, health and health inequalities from the 19th to the 21st century
- Part 2. Trends in chronic disease and risk factors
- 11: Hiroyasu Iso, Kotatu Maruyama , and Kazumasa Yamagishi: Chronic diseases and risk factor trends in Japan: Cardiovascular inequalities
- 12: Yuri Ito and Bernard Rachet: Cancer inequalities in Japan
- 13: Shigeru Inoue, Hiroyuki Kikuchi, and Shiho Amagasa: Physical activity, sport and health in Japan
- 14: Takahiro Tabuchi: Tobacco control policy and tobacco product use disparity in Japan
- 15: Norito Kawakami and Akihito Shimazu: Mental health and wellbeing in Japan: social, cultural, and political determinants
- Part 3. Japan and the planet
- 16: Hiroki Nakatani: Japan's engagement with global health: evolution and outlook in the era of SDGs
- 17: Tomoki Nakaya and Tomoya Hanibuchi: Geographic Disparities in Health
- 18: Naoki Kondo and Jun Aida: Disaster and health: what makes a country resilient?
- 19: Kokoro Shirai: Social determinants of health on the island of Okinawa
- 20: Eric Brunner, Noriko Cable, and Hiroyasu Iso: Japan in long view
About the author
Eric Brunner is Professor of Social and Biological Epidemiology and Health Care at University College London.
Dr. Noriko Cable is a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care at University College London.
Hiroyasu Iso is Professor of Public Health in the Department of Social Medicine at the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine.
Summary
Health Inequalities in Japan brings together the expertise of Japan's leading social epidemiologists in English for the first time. Providing a balanced perspective on the determinants of wellbeing and illness, it gives a valuable insight into the epidemiological underpinnings of one of the world's healthiest populaces.
