Changes In Catastrophic Health Expenditures For Major Diseases After A 2013 Health Insurance Expansion In South Korea.
Lee HY, Oh J, Kawachi I.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2022 05. 41(5):722-731. PMID: 35500181
John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Ichiro Kawachi, MB.ChB., Ph.D., is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Kawachi received both his medical degree and Ph.D. (epidemiology) from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has taught at Harvard since 1992.
Kawachi is the co-editor (with Lisa Berkman) of the first textbook on Social Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press in 2000 (2nd edition published in 2014, with Lisa Berkman & Maria Glymour). His other books include Neighborhoods & Health (edited by Dustin Duncan & Ichiro Kawachi, Oxford University Press, 2018), Social Capital and Health with S.V. Subramanian & Daniel Kim (Springer, 2008); Behavioral Economics and Public Health with Christina Roberto (Oxford University Press, 2016); Social Epidemiology of Sleep (with Dustin Duncan & Susan Redline, Oxford University Press, 2019), and the Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice (Oxford University Press, 4th edition forthcoming in 2019)
In 2013, he launched a massive, open online course (MOOC) through HarvardX called “Health and Society” (PHx 201), in which 32,000 participants registered from throughout the world. Kawachi is the Co-Editor in Chief (with S.V. Subramanian) of the international journal Social Science & Medicine, as well as the sister open access journal, SSM – Population Health. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences, and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Lee HY, Oh J, Kawachi I.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2022 05. 41(5):722-731. PMID: 35500181
Ransome Y, Kershaw T, Kawachi I, Nash D, Mayer KH.
J Community Psychol. 2022 Apr 23. PMID: 35460588
Lawrence JA, Kawachi I, White K, Bassett MT, Priest N, Masunga JG, Cory HJ, Mita C, Williams DR.
Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2022 Apr 21. 142:105772. PMID: 35490482
Pinillos-Franco S, Kawachi I.
Soc Sci Med. 2022 Apr 11. 301:114969. PMID: 35429838
Oh SS, Moon JY, Chon D, Mita C, Lawrence JA, Park EC, Kawachi I.
J Med Internet Res. 2022 04 11. 24(4):e35554. PMID: 35404257
Lee S, Ryu S, Lee GE, Kawachi I, Morey BN, Slopen N.
Sleep. 2022 04 11. 45(4). PMID: 34922392
Lee HY, Song IH, Kawachi I.
Sci Rep. 2022 04 08. 12(1):5910. PMID: 35396562
Pinillos-Franco S, Kawachi I.
Eur J Public Health. 2022 04 01. 32(2):220-225. PMID: 34966920
Simon CL, Gordon DM, Shiyko MP, Viswanath K, Kawachi I.
Matern Child Health J. 2022 May. 26(5):1160-1167. PMID: 35357617
Lee HY, Kim NH, Kawachi I.
Soc Sci Med. 2022 Mar 26. 301:114952. PMID: 35390558
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