INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING STUDIES 47(8) 1028-1036 2010年8月 [査読有り]
Background: Despite a growing number of studies on leaving the organization or long-term care among professional caregivers for older people, little is known about the impact of types of employment on leaving.
Objectives: To examine the associatio...
Objectives: This study examined the effect of increased physician numbers overall on the geographic distribution of the physicians in Japan and the US.
Methods: Equity of physician distribution with reference to community population and community ...
Background: In many countries, there is a surplus of physicians in some communities and a shortage in others. Population size is known to be correlated with the number of physicians in a community, and is conventionally considered to represent the...
DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE AND CHILD NEUROLOGY 59(3) 317-321 2017年3月
AIM Japan lacks a population-based registration system for cerebral palsy (CP), therefore the nationwide prevalence of CP is unknown. Our aim was to estimate the number of children with CP using the National Database of Health Insurance Claims and...
JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH 59(5) 418-427 2017年
Objectives: There is limited evidence on the relationship between labor factors and the decision to refrain from seeking medical services. This study aimed to examine how labor factors are related to medical service access among male and female wo...
Aim: This study aimed to describe trends in CP prevalence among children born between 1988 and 2007 in Okinawa, Japan.
Method: This study was conducted during two time periods, Period I (from 1988 to 1997) and Period II (from 1998 to 2007), using ...
TOHOKU JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE 239(1) 9-15 2016年5月
Bladder cancer is common in Western countries, but not in Japan. Established risk factors are smoking and high-risk jobs such as printing and manufacturing. The risk of alcohol consumption in bladder cancer has been the recent focus; however, avai...