Epidemiology of diseases of unknown etiology, specified as "intractable diseases" [0.03%]
病因不明疾病的流行病学及其所谓"不治之症"的特点
Y Ohno,T Kawamura,A Tamakoshi et al.
Y Ohno et al.
In Japan, epidemiological studies on intractable diseases have been undertaken and greatly promoted for more than 20 years by the Research Committee on Epidemiology of Intractable Diseases, with the financial supports from the Ministry of H...
H Ohshiro,K Kawamoto,T Nose
H Ohshiro
The surveillance system of infectious disease in Japan started in 1981 and has been providing useful epidemiological information on 27 communicable diseases. The system consists of medical institutions (fixed monitoring stations), instituti...
"Tuberculosis" [0.03%]
“结核病”
M Aoki
M Aoki
Tuberculosis has decreased so rapidly and has changed its epidemiological feature so markedly in these several decades in Japan, that tuberculosis epidemiologists had done and have to do numerous studies to understand the situations and to ...
K Tajima,K Soda
K Tajima
The data obtained from the national reporting system of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and its causative immune deficiency virus (HIV), the epidemic pattern of AIDS cases and HIV carriers in Japan from 1985 to 1995 could be summ...
K Soda,M Kamakura,K Kitamura
K Soda
During early Meiji era in Japan, there were frequent epidemics of fatal acute communicable diseases such as cholera, dysentery and smallpox, and preventive measures and preparations for acute infectious diseases were urgently needed. Togeth...
A brief review of epidemiological studies on ischemic heart disease in Japan [0.03%]
日本缺血性心脏病流行病学研究简述
H Tanaka,C Date,H Chen et al.
H Tanaka et al.
The age-adjusted death rate from ischemic heart disease in Japan is the lowest among developed countries and the rates have decreased since 1970. The incidences of myocardial infarction in selected populations ranged between 0.12 and 2.56 p...
T Shimamoto,H Iso,M Iida et al.
T Shimamoto et al.
Japan had the highest mortality from stroke among developed countries in 1960, but experienced rapid changes in diet and other lifestyles with economic growth between the 1960s and the 1980s, which provided an unique opportunity to observe ...
A Hanai,I Fujimoto
A Hanai
Population-based cancer registries in Japan were first established in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1957-1958 for assessing radiation effects and in Miyagi in 1959 for promoting epidemiological researches, while most other prefect...
S Tominaga
S Tominaga
The Special Cancer Research Program was newly established in 1984 within the existing International Scientific Research Program of the Monbusho (Ministry of Education, Science and Culture) as a part of "the Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy fo...
S Watanabe,T Sobue,Y Kinjyo
S Watanabe
Cancer epidemiology in Japan has been led by the large-scale population based cohort studies. Permanent registration system has made follow-up easier and more efficient. Low cancer incidence and mortality rates led the researchers to invest...