Course Overview

This course aims to equip students with an understanding of the broad determinants of health - income and poverty, education, environmental factors such as housing and transport - as well as health care and genetic influences and of the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach which includes medicine, epidemiology, statistics, economics, social science and many other subjects in improving population health.

Learning Achievement

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to examine current public health issues through various disciplines.

Competence

Ability to apply knowledge, epidemiology, biostatistics, health policy and management, social and behavioral sciences, and environmental health

Course prerequisites

None

Grading Philosophy

Evaluated based on the report for each lecture.
A+ 90-100, A 80-89, B 70-79, C 60-69, D <60 out of the total score of 100.

Course schedule

Society and health
Resource allocation in health sector
Global health
Biostatistics for medical researches: overview
Maternal and child health
Epidemiology of lifestyle-related diseases
Infectious diseases epidemiology
Pharmacoepidemiology
Occupational and environmental health
Occupational psychiatry and space medicine
Health services research in community care
Family caregiving
Longevity medicine
Forensic medicine
Psychological approach for mental health
Mental health (domestic violence)
Public mental health
Community care and open dialogue
Report writing
Report writing
Report writing is not a lecture but time provided for students to complete report writing assigned in each lecture.

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Ichikawa Masao,Kondo Masahide,Gosho Masahiko,Saito Tamaki,Tamiya Nanako,Yamagishi Kazumasa,Wagatsuma Yukiko,Sasahara Shinichiro,Morita Nobuaki,Ito Tomoko,Ogai Yasukazu,Sugano Yukiko,Togoobaatar Ganchimeg,Fukushige Mizuho,Hori Ai,Iwagami Masao,Takahashi Sho,Takahashi Tsukasa

Other information

If plagiarism is found in the report, the grade of D (failure of the course) will be given, and the grade is irreversible.

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university