Monthly faculty activities and publications

Publication

2023/August Professor Nobuo Nishi’s paper was published in Preventive Medicine Report.

Nishi, N., Kitaoka, K., Tran Ngoc Hoang, P., Okami, Y., Kondo, K., Sata, M., Kadota, A., Nakamura, M., Yoshita, K., Okamura, T., Ojima, T., & Miura, K. (2023). Trends in mortality from major causes and lifestyle factors by per capita prefectural income: Ecological panel data analysis from 1995 to 2016 in Japan. Preventive medicine reports, 35, 102348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102348

> https://doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2023

Received: 10 January 2023
Accepted: 23 July 2023
Available online: 24 July 2023

2023/July Professor Nobuo Nishi's paper was published in Economics & Human Biology.

Ikeda N, Nishi N. Spatiotemporal variations in mean height of 17-year-old students born in 1957-2002 across 47 Japanese prefectures: Evidence from School Health Surveys. Econ Hum Biol. 2023 Jul 22;51:101283.

> https://doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101283

Received: 12 March 2023
Accepted: 18 July 2023
Available online: 22 July 2023

Presentation

2023/August Professor Nobuo Nishi gave a presentation at the following international conference.

Conference: 1st International Conference on Public Health (ICPH)
Presentation type: Invited speaker
Date: August, 2023
Research title: Application of system dynamics in noncommunicable disease prevention
Author: Nishi N
Organizer: Health Research Group, Department of Statistics, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh

> https://www.ru.ac.bd/stat/notice/1st-international-conference-on-public-health-icph/

Award

2023/August Dr. Emily Takahashi (Matsumoto), junior associate professor has been selected for the St. Luke's International University 2023 Faculty Award (Research theme: Global Warming and malaria in Lao PDR: A spatial epidemiological study using earth observation satellite data).