Takemi Fellow Publications
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2009
Naoki Kondo, Grace Sembajwe, Ichiro Kawachi, Rob M van Dam, SV Subramanian, Zentaro Yamagata, Income inequality, mortality, and self rated health: meta-analysis of multlevel studies, BMJ 2009;339:b4471.
Asami Sasaki, Anne Gatewood Hoen, Al Ozonoff, Hiroshi Suzuki, Naohito Tanabe, Nao Seki, Reicko Saito, and John S. Brownstein, Evidence-based tool for triggering school closures during Influenza outbreaks, Japan, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol. 15, No. 11, November 2009.
Mieko Hamamoto, Masamine Jimba, Donald D. Halstead, Grace Wyshak, Michael Reich, Can national medical association journals make greater contributions to global health? An international survey and comparison, JMAJ, July/August 2009- Vol. 52, No. 4.
Miwako Hosoda, Transformation of bioethics in America: From individual issues on life to public health, Seimei Rinri (Journal of Japan Association for Bioethics.) Accepted for publication
Miwako Hosoda, Social movement against the revision of the social insurance medical fee schedule for rehabilitation therapy, The Japanese Journal of Health and Medical Sociology. Accepted for publication.
Anais Tanon, Patient Safety and systematic reviews: finding papers indexed in MEDLINE, EMBASE and CINAHL, Quality and Safety in Health Care. Accepted for publication.
Juhwan Oh, Jin-Seok Lee, Yong-Jun Choi, Hyeong-Keun Park, Young Kyung Do, AND Sang-Jun Eu, Struggle Against Privatization: A Case History in the Use of Comparative Performance Evaluation of Public Hospital, International Journal of Health Services. Accepted for publication.
Jongoh Kim, Mia Son, Ichiro Kawachi, Juhwan Oh, The extent and distribution of inequalities in childhood mortality by cause of death according to parental socioeconomic positions: A birth cohort study in South Korea, Social Science & Medicine, 69 (2009) 1116-1126.
Hiroo Ide, Salih Mollahaliloglu, How firms set prices for medical materials: A multi-country study, Health Policy 92 (2009) 73-78.
Michael R. Reich & Keizo Takemi, G8 and strengthening of health systems: follow-up to the Toyako summit, The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 15 January 2009.
Samuel J. Ratick, Jeffrey P. Osleeb, Dai Hozumi, Application and extension of the Moore and ReVelle Hierarchical Maximal Covering Model, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 43 (2009), 92-101.
Bodavala, R., Thriving on a Wide Solar Lighting Initiative, The Solar Quarterly, January, 2009.
Bertoldi AD, de Barros, AJD, Wagner A, Ross-Degnan D, Hallal PC, Medicine access and utilization in a population covered by primary health care in Brazil, Health Policy, 2009, 89(3): 295-302.
Carret, M. L. V.; Fassa, A.; MR Domingues, Inappropriate use of emergency services: a systematic review of prevalence and associated factors, Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 25(1):7-28, Jan, 2009.
2008
Yuanli Liu, Keqin Rao, Jing Wu, Emmanuela Gakidou, China's health system performance, The Lancet, Vol 372, Nov 29, 2008.
S V Subramanian & Sakthivel Selvaraj, Social analysis of sex imbalance in India: before and after the implementation of the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act, J Epidemiol Community Health. Published Online First: 25 November 2008.
N Kondo, S V Subramanian, I Kawachi, Y Takeda, Z Yamagata, Economic recession and health inequalities in Japan: analysis with a national sample, 1986-2001, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2008; 62:869-875. Naoki Kondo, et al., Do social comparisons explain the association between income inequality and health?: Relative deprivation and perceived health among male and female Japanese individuals, Social Science & Medicine 67 (2008) 982-987. Keizo Takemi, Masamine Jimba, Sumie Ishii,Yasushi Katsuma, Yasuhide Nakamura, on behalf of the Working Group on Challenges in Global Health and Japan's Contribution, Human security approach for global health, The Lancet, Vol 372 July 5, 2008. Michael R Reich, Keizo Takemi, Marc J Roberts, William C Hsiao, Global action on health systems: a proposal for the Toyako G8 Summit, The Lancet, Vol. 371, March 8, 2008. Mayumi Shimizu, Preliminary findings: problems and further improvement of maternal care in Senegal, JMAJ 51(2): 128-130, 2008. Ajay Mahal & Anup K. Karan, Adequacy of dietary intakes and poverty in India: Trends in the 1990s, Economics and Human Biology 6 (2008) 57-74. Charu C Garg & Anup K Karan, Reducing out-of-pocket expenditures to reduce poverty: A disaggregated analysis at rural-urban and state level in India, Health Policy and Planning, December 2008. Galaraga O, Colchero A, Wamai RG, Bertozzi S. HIV prevention cost effectiveness: recent breakthroughs and structural interventions. National Institute of Public Health (forthcoming, 2008). Wamai RG et al (43 authors). Male circumcision is an efficacious, lasting and cost-effective strategy for combating HIV in high-prevalence AIDS epidemics: time to move beyond debating the science. Future HIV Therapy Vol.2 (5), 399-405, 2008. Halperin DT, Potts M, Kirby D, Klausner J, Wamai RG, Swidler A, Marseille E, Walsh J, Hearst N. Response. Science Vol. 321 (September 19), 1632-33, 2008. Wamai RG & Katsui H. Health and disability in international development policy. The Sylff Newsletter No. 21 (August), 6-8, 2008. Wamai RG. Reforming health systems: the role of NGOs in decentralization - lessons from Kenya and Ethiopia. Working Papers, ISTR 8th Conference. Barcelona, Spain July 9-12 (forthcoming, 2008). Potts M, Halperin DT, Kirby D, Swidler A, Marseille E, Klausner J, Hearst N, Wamai RG, Kahn JG, Walsh J: Reassessing HIV Prevention. Science Vol. 320, 749-750, 2008. Klausner J. Wamai RG, Bowa K, Agot K, Kagimba J, Halperin DT. Is male circumcision as good as the HIV vaccine we've been waiting for? Future HIV Therapy. 2(1), 1-7, 2008. Wamai RG, HIV prevalence, male circumcision and ‘prostitution' in Africa: what is true, what matters in prevention? PLos One. 10 July, 2008. Andréa Dâmaso Bertoldi, Aluísio Jardim Dornellas de Barrosb, Anita Wagnerd, Dennis Ross-Degnand, Pedro Curi Hallalb, Medicine access and utilization in a population covered by primary health care in Brazil, Health Policy, 2008. Andréa D Bertoldi, Aluísio JD Barros, Anita Wagner, Dennis Ross-Degnan and Pedro C Hallal, A descriptive review of the methodologies used in household surveys on medicine utilization, BMC Health Services Research 2008, 8:222. T Nagata, S Setoguchi, D Hemenway, M J Perry, Effectiveness of a law to reduce alcohol-impaired driving in Japan, Injury Prevention, 2008; 14; 19-23. Gabriel M. Leung, Keith Y. K. Tin and Owen O'Donnell, Redistribution or horizontal equity in Hong Kong's mixed public-private health system: a policy conundrum, Health Econ. (2008). Guillory VJ, Cai J, Hoff GL, Secular trends in excess fetal and infant mortality using Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) analysis, J Natl Med Ass 2008;100:1450-1456. Sharp GF, Naylor LA, Cai J, Hyder ML, Chandra P, Guillory VJ, Assessing awareness, knowledge and use of folic acid in Midwest women between the ages of 18 and 44, Maternal Child Health J 2008;12:Sept 23rd epub ahead of print. Ramezani Tehrani, F., Malek-Afzali, H., Knowledge, attitudes and practice concerning HIV/AIDS among Iranian at risk populations, Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, vol.14(1)Jan-Feb 2008. De Silva, W. Indralal, Construction and Analysis of National and District Life Tables of Sri Lanka, 2000-2002, Ministry of Health care and Nutrition, Colombo (2008). *Book De Silva, W. Indralal, A Population Projection of Sri Lanka for the New Millennium 2001-2101: Trends and Implications, Institute for Health Policy, Colombo (2008). *Book 2007 Wamai RG and Katsui H. Mainstreaming of health and disability issues in the UK's, Japanese and Finnish development policies with assessment of the implementation and practices in Ethiopia and Kenya, Joint Initiatives Report: Sasakawa Foundation. 2007. Owen O'Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer, Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan, Shiva Raj Adhikari, Deni Harbianto, Charu C. Garg, Piya Hanvoravongchai, Mohammed N. Huq, Anup Karan, Gabriel M. Leung, Chiu Wan Ng, Badri Raj Pande, Keith Tin, Kanjana Tisayaticom, Laksono Trisnantoro, Yuhui Zhang, and Yuxin Zhao The incidence of public spending on healthcare: comparative evidence from Asia, The World Bank Economic Review Advance Access published January 24, 2007. Carret, M. L. V., Fassa, A., Ichiro Kawachi, Demand for emergency health service: factors associated with inappropriate use, BMC Health Services Research, 2007, 7:131. Carret, M. L. V., Fassa, A.G., PANIZ, V. M. V., SOARES, P. C, Characteristics of the emergency health service demand in southern Brazil, Ciência & Saúde Coletiva (On line), 2007. Carret, M. L. V.; Fassa, A.; MR Domingues, Prevalence and associated factors with inappropriate use of emergency service: a literature systematic review, Cadernos de Saúde Pública (FIOCRUZ), 2008. Eriko Sase & Sofia Gruskin, A human rights perspective on infectious diseases in Japan, JMAJ, November/December 2007 - Vol. 50, No. 6. Myoung-Hee Kim, S V Subramanian, Ichiro Kawachi, Chang-Yup Kim, Association between childhood fatal injuries and socioeconomic position at individual and area levels: a multilevel study, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2007; 61; 135-140. Lu JF, Leung GM, Kwon S, Tin KY, Van Doorslaer E, O'Donnell O, Horizontal equity in health care utilization evidence from three high-income Asian economies, Social Science & Medicine 64 (2007) 199-212. Lu JF, Leung GM, Kwon S, Tin KY, Van Doorslaer E, O'Donnell O, Horizontal equity in health care utilization evidence from three high-income Asian economies, Social Science & Medicine 64 (2007) 199-212. Cai J, Hoff GL, Archer R, Jones LD, Livingston PS, Guillory VJ, Perinatal Periods of Risk analysis of infant mortality in Jackson County, Missouri, J Public Health Manage Pract 2007;13:270-277. Cai J, Hoff GL, Okah F, Dew PC, Somoza X, Jones L, Livingston P, Everhardt MJ, Archer R, Fetal mortality: timing of racial disparities, J Nat Med Ass 2007;99(11):1258-1261. Dew PC, Guillory VJ, Okah FA, Cai J, Hoff GL, Interaction of health compromising behaviors on preterm births, Maternal Child Health J 2007;11:227-233. Fitzgerald K, Cai J, Hoff GL, Dew PC, Okah FA, Clinical manifestation of small for gestational age risk from pregnancy-smoking is gestational age dependent, Am J Perinatol 24(9):519-524. Hoff GL, Cai J, Okah FA, Dew PC, Changes in smoking behavior between first and second pregnancies, Am J Health Behavior 2007;31:583-590. Okah FA, Hoff GL, Dew PC, Cai J, Cumulative and residual risks of small for gestational age neonates after changing pregnancy-smoking behaviors, Am J Perinatol 2007;24:191-196. 2006 Wamai RG and Katsui H (Eds.). Civil society reconsidered: critical look at NGOs in development practice. Interkont Books, Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2006. T Nagata, D Hemenway, M Perry, The effectiveness of a new law to reduce alcohol-impaired driving in Japan, JMAJ, September - October 2006, 365-369. T. Nagata, S.N. Rosborough, M.J. VanRooyen, S. Kozawa, T. Ukai, S. Nakayama, Express railway disaster in Amagasaki: A review of urban disaster response capacity in Japan, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, Vol. 21, No. 5, September - October 2006, 345-352.