Community screening programs of cancer and cardiovascular diseases in Japan [0.03%]
日本的癌症和心血管疾病社区筛查项目
S Hisamichi
S Hisamichi
The Health and Medical Services Law for the Aged was implemented from February, 1983 in Japan. This paper describes the present status of health examination programs and cancer screening programs and related issues as follows : methods of t...
Health information system [0.03%]
卫生信息系统
M Minowa,M Hayashi,A Kitai et al.
M Minowa et al.
Outline of selected ones among a number of nationwide surveys related to health and welfare services (90 surveys as of 1995) conducted mainly by the Ministry of Health and Welfare periodically in Japan is described. That is, history, purpos...
What ethical issues are Japanese epidemiologists facing? Results of a questionnaire study for members of the Monbusho Research Committee on evaluation of risk factors for cancer by large-scale cohort study. Subcommittee of Ethical Issues [0.03%]
日本流行病学工作者所面临的主要伦理问题有哪些？——大规模癌症流行病学研究的危险因素评价研究会(伦理问题专题组)成员调查结果摘要
In 1993 questionnaires concerning ethical issues were mailed to 34 committee members of the Monbusho research committee of a large-scale cohort study which started in 1988 including 32 rural communities and 4 occupational groups. The questi...
Recent topics in Japan [0.03%]
日本近期话题
Y Inaba
Y Inaba
In Japan, the concern about ethical issues in preventive medicine, especially in epidemiological investigation, has been gradually increasing in recent years. In this paper I introduce the following four topics: 1. privacy protection and th...
C Date,M Yamaguchi,H Tanaka
C Date
The three-consecutive-day weighing method, in which foods as raw materials are weighed separately before they are cooked, is the most popular dietary assessment method among Japanese dietitians, because this dietary survey method has been a...
K Nakachi,K Imai,K Suga
K Nakachi
Molecular epidemiology of cancer has been developed along with rapid advances in molecular carcinogenesis, introducing new approaches to etiology and prevention of cancer. First, research activities in Japan are briefly reviewed in this iss...
Environmental health [0.03%]
环境卫生学
K Maeda,H Nitta
K Maeda
The rapid industrial development that began in the 1950's created environmental problems which consequently led to health hazards among residents of heavily polluted areas in Japan, such as Minamata Disease and Yokkaichi Asthma. Faced with ...
Occupational health [0.03%]
职业健康
T Yoshimura
T Yoshimura
Epidemiological studies on several selected topics in occupational health in Japan is introduced in the present paper. Karoushi or sudden death due to overwork was proposed in 1978. Hypertension was suggested to be one of the risk factors f...
Report by the Research Committee of the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture on evaluation of risk factors for cancer [0.03%]
文部科学省研究班癌病因评佔报告书
K Aoki
K Aoki
Lifestyle habits and other living conditions in Japanese have progressively been changing after the World War II, and the changing trend has been accelerated since 1970. The frequency and distribution of cancer by site in Japan showed marke...
K Kodama,K Mabuchi,I Shigematsu
K Kodama
The Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC), the predecessor of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF), was established in 1947 to conduct long-term, comprehensive epidemiological and genetic studies of the atomic-bomb (A-bomb) sur...