Regional difference in cancer detection rate in prostate cancer screening by a local municipality in Japan by Chie Koizumi

“…We conducted the present retrospective study to elucidate regional differences in the quality of secondary screening in the prostate cancer (PCA) screening program by a local municipality in Japan. Methods: Of 115,881 men who attended the PCA screening in 36 municipalities between 2001 and 2011, a total of 6,099 men consulted hospitals for secondary screening. …”
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Relationship between changes in the public health nurses’ workforce and the empirical Bayes estimates of standardized mortality ratio: a longitudinal ecological study of municipalities in Japan by Shimpei Kodama, Futoshi Uwatoko, Chihaya Koriyama

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Associations between social fragmentation, socioeconomic deprivation and suicide risk across 1887 municipalities in Japan, 2009–2017: a spatial analysis using the Bayesian hierarchical model by Yukihiro Sato, Sharon Hanley, Yasuaki Saijo, Eiji Yoshioka

“…This study aims to investigate associations between socioeconomic characteristics and suicide mortality rates across 1887 municipalities in Japan between 2009 and 2017. We also assessed these associations by gender and age group.Methods Suicide data were obtained from the suicide statistics of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in Japan and included information on the number of suicides by gender, age and municipality location. …”
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Local government broadband policies for areas with limited Internet access by Yoshio Arai, Sae Naganuma, Yasukazu Satake

“…With the support of national promotion policies, broadband services were rapidly introduced to most local municipalities in Japan during the 2000s. Local government deployment policies helped to reduce the number of areas with no broadband access. …”
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Decline and approaches to revitalization in small cities: the case of Saga, Japan by Munetoshi Yamashita

“…The local economies of smaller municipalities in Japan, for example, have been more seriously damaged by the recession of the last decade than the economies of larger cities. …”
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Role and limitations of the in-store waste collection system at supermarkets by Mayuko Suzuki, Tomohiro Tabata

“…A total of 1734 municipalities in Japan were classified into six clusters using cluster analysis to analyze the characteristics of municipal and in-store collection by municipality. …”
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Local‐Area Walkability and Socioeconomic Disparities of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Japan by Mohammad Javad Koohsari, Tomoki Nakaya, Tomoya Hanibuchi, Ai Shibata, Kaori Ishii, Takemi Sugiyama, Neville Owen, Koichiro Oka

“…Methods and Results National data were used from the 1824 municipalities (of the 1880 potentially eligible municipalities) across Japan. The outcome was mortality from CVD for a 5‐year period (2008–2012) for each municipality. …”
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Risk of cardiovascular events leading to hospitalisation after Streptococcus pneumoniae infection: a retrospective cohort LIFE Study by Haruhisa Fukuda, Naoaki Nishimura

“…Objectives To elucidate the risk of cardiovascular event occurrence following Streptococcus pneumoniae infection.Design Retrospective cohort study using a LIFE Study database.Setting Three municipalities in Japan.Participants Municipality residents who were enrolled in either National Health Insurance or the Latter-Stage Elderly Healthcare System from April 2014 to March 2020.Exposure Occurrence of S. pneumoniae infection.Primary outcome measures Occurrence of one of the following cardiovascular events that led to hospitalisation after S. pneumoniae infection: (1) coronary heart disease (CHD), (2) heart failure (HF), (3) stroke or (4) atrial fibrillation (AF).Results S. pneumoniae-infected patients were matched with non-infected patients for each cardiovascular event. …”
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Individual Learning Needs of Japanese Public Health Dietitians by Years of Experience in Health Promotion by Osamu Kushida, Ayaka Iida, Yusuke Arai, Tatsuya Koyama, Kazumi Tanaka, Ayumi Morooka, Sumie Isobe, Rie Okamoto, Katsushi Yoshita

“…In 2021, an online survey of public health dietitians involved in health promotion in prefectures, designated cities, and other municipalities throughout Japan was conducted. Years of experience in health promotion were categorized as early (<10 years), mid-career (10–19 years), and leadership (≥20 years) periods. …”
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Oral function and cumulative long-term care costs among older Japanese adults: a prospective 6-year follow-up study of long care receipt data by Masashige Saito, Toshiyuki Ojima, Eisaku Okada, Yasuhiro Miyaguni, Kaori Kojima

“…Objectives This study evaluated the relationship between status of oral function and related long-term care service costs.Design This was a prospective 6-year follow-up study of previous survey data.Setting The data were obtained from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study conducted between 2010 and 2011.Participants The participants were functionally independent older adults in 12 municipalities across Japan.Interventions Care service benefit costs were tracked over 6 years using publicly available claims records (n=46 616) to monitor respondents’ cumulative care costs.Primary and secondary outcome measures The primary outcome variable was the cumulative cost of long-term care insurance services during the follow-up period. …”
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Association of frailty with influenza and hospitalization due to influenza among independent older adults: a longitudinal study of Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES) by Kousuke Iwai-Saito, Koryu Sato, Jun Aida, Katsunori Kondo

“…Methods We used the longitudinal data from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES), performed in 2016 and 2019 and conducted in 28 municipalities in Japan. The target population comprised 77,103 persons aged ≥ 65 years who did not need assistance from the public long-term care insurance. …”
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Association of Pneumococcal and Influenza Vaccination With Patient–Physician Communication in Older Adults: A Nationwide Cross-sectional Study From the JAGES 2016 by Koryu Sato, Naoki Kondo, Chiyoe Murata, Yugo Shobugawa, Kousuke Saito, Katsunori Kondo

“…The participants were 22,253 physically and cognitively independent individuals aged 65 or older living in 39 municipalities in Japan. Multilevel logit models were used to estimate the odds of vaccination. …”
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GIS-Based Study of Dental Accessibility and Caries in 3-Year-Old Japanese Children by Zheqi Huang, Kahori Kawamura, Takaya Kitayama, Qianying Li, Shijie Yang, Tatsuro Miyake

“…ABSTRACT: Objective: This study aimed to reveal the geographic accessibility of dental clinics for most municipalities in Japan in 2015 and to explore the association between dental accessibility and dental caries status in 3-year-old children. …”
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Privatization of transit in Yokohama : social and financial impacts by Nakajima, Tsukihito

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Bivalent mRNA vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 among older adults in Japan: a test-negative study from the VENUS study by Yudai Tamada, Kenji Takeuchi, Taro Kusama, Megumi Maeda, Fumiko Murata, Ken Osaka, Haruhisa Fukuda

“…Methods We adopted the test-negative design using COVID-19 test data of individuals, aged ≥ 65 years, residing in three municipalities in Japan, who underwent tests in medical institutions between October 1 and December 30, 2022. …”
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Empowering Community Health Workers in Japan: Determinants of Non-Communicable Disease Prevention Competency by Yuki Imamatsu, Yuka Iwata, Ayuka Yokoyama, Yuko Tanaka, Etsuko Tadaka

“…Methods: The research design is a secondary analysis using data from a self-administered questionnaire survey of 6480 CHWs residing in municipalities across Japan, which obtained 3120 valid responses, between September to November 2020. …”
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Development of hypertriglyceridemia due to GPIHBP1 autoantibodies prior to clinical diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus in a 14-year-old girl by Tomoaki Kunitsu, Mariko Harada-Shiba, Tomomi Sato, Kazuo Nonomura, Takao Kimura, Kazuya Miyashita, Katsuyuki Nakajima, Masami Murakami

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On the Cost Structures of the End-of-life Product Logistics by Masashi Yamamoto

“…This paper analyzes the cost structure of the municipal waste collection in Japan. Since the municipality in Japan is responsible for dealing with the garbage generated by households, there is plenty of data regarding municipal waste in comparrison to private firms. …”
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What if neither randomized control trials nor public voting records are available in a get-out-the-vote field experiment? by Kentaro Fukumoto

“…I collaborated with the election commission of a municipality in Japan. The election commission sent direct mail (DM) to all 18-year-olds in the municipality and disclosed voting records at the week-of-birth level. …”
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Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic by Kenta Watanabe, Kosuke Mori, Kosuke Sato, Takeru Abe, Shouhei Imaki, Ichiro Takeuchi

“…Data of 519 OHCA patients during the pre-pandemic (January–December 2019; 262 patients) and intra-pandemic (April 2020–March 2021; 257 patients) periods in Yokohama Municipal Hospital, Japan were collected and analysed retrospectively. …”
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