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Health inequality across prefectures in Japan - The Lancet

(3 days ago) WEBThe average health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) overall increased by 3·5 years over this period, but the disparity between HALEs in the highest and lowest performing prefectures has slightly widened across the period, from 2·3 years in 1990 to 2·7 years …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)31792-0/fulltext

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Japan Health System Review - World Health Organization

(8 days ago) WEBi Japan Health System Review Health Systems in Transition Vol. 8 No. 1 2018 Written by: Haruka Sakamoto: Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo Md. Mizanur Rahman: Project Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/259941/9789290226260-eng.pdf?sequence=1

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Trends in health and health inequality during the Japanese …

(3 days ago) WEBThe CSLC survey is a nationally representative survey series with large sample size, allowing an opportunity to provide a good overview of subjective health and its socioeconomic inequalities over the entire Japanese economic stagnation period together with the 1986 and 1989 surveys in the last of the high growth years.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9958394/

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Health inequalities in Japan: The role of material, psychosocial

(7 days ago) WEBThe extent that risk factors, identified in Western countries, account for health inequalities in Japan remains unclear. We analysed a nationally representative sample (Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions surveyed in 2001 (n = 40,243)).The cross-sectional association between self-rated fair or poor health and household income and a …

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027795361300720X

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The Global Financial Crisis and Healthcare Inequality in Japan

(Just Now) WEBThe aim of this study is to clarify whether health-care inequality in Japan widens during a depression, even though Japan has a universal health-care system. To this end, we investigate the time-series fluctuations in health-care expenditure inequalities in Japan for the period 2008–2017, which includes the period during which the global …

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-021-02823-3

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Health inequality across prefectures in Japan - The Lancet

(5 days ago) WEBEconomic recession and health inequalities in Japan: analysis with a national sample, 1986–2001. J Epidemiol Community Health 2008; 62: 869–75. 7 Hiyoshi A, Fukuda Y, Shipley M, Brunner E. Health inequalities in Japan: The role of material, psychosocial, social relational and behavioral factors. Soc Sci Med 2014; 104: 201–09.

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The Atlas of Health Inequalities in Japan SpringerLink

(6 days ago) WEBThis new health atlas of Japan presents a series of maps about the health of the contemporary Japanese population, i.e. detailed maps of health indicators in small areas using cartograms. This is the first comprehensive small-area based health atlas about contemporary Japan using vital statistics from 1995-2014.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-22707-4

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Geographic Disparities in Health Health in Japan: Social …

(3 days ago) WEBGeographic disparities in health that are evident with worse population health in socially disadvantaged areas, have been widely observed at different geographic coverages and scales in different societies. 1 As well as resident’s personal lack of resources, such as low income and assets, area-related environmental factors, such as poor access to …

https://academic.oup.com/book/31971/chapter/267714417

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Economic recession and health inequalities in Japan: analysis …

(4 days ago) WEB3 Office for Cancer Control, Health Service Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, Tokyo, Japan Abstract Objective—Little is known about whether economic crises widen health inequalities. Japan experienced more than 10 years of economic recession beginning in the 1990s. The question of whether socioeconomic-based inequality in self

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/41288154/49585%20aam%20nihms-160389.pdf?sequence=1

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Economic recession and health inequalities in Japan: analysis with …

(8 days ago) WEBObjective: Little is known about whether economic crises widen health inequalities. Japan experienced more than 10 years of economic recession beginning in the 1990s. The question of whether socioeconomic-based inequality in self-rated health widened after the economic crisis was examined. Design, setting and participants: Repeated cross …

https://jech.bmj.com/content/62/10/869

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Trends in health and health inequality during the Japanese …

(1 days ago) WEBIntroduction: Human health and wellbeing may depend on economic growth, the implication being that policymakers need to choose between population health and the health of ecosystems. Over two decades of low economic growth, Japan's life expectancy grew. Here we assess the temporal changes of subjective health and health inequality …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36852377/

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Bayesian and decomposition analyses for health inequality in …

(6 days ago) WEBIn this article, the author investigates the inequality of health conditions in Japan using self-reported health condition data collected during a Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions in Japan. The used data is ordinal, and inequality measures for ordinal data are introduced. Bayesian and decomposition analyses for the inequality of health

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504851.2021.1883523

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Economic recession and health inequalities in Japan: analysis …

(7 days ago) WEBEconomic recession and health inequalities in Japan: analysis with a national sample, 1986-2001 N Kondo,1'2 S V Subramanian,1 I Kawachi,1 Y Takeda,3 Z Yamagata2 ABSTRACT Objective: Little is known about whether economic crises widen health inequalities. Japan experienced more than 10 years of economic recession beginning …

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20720838

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Why inequality is different in Japan World Economic Forum

(6 days ago) WEBJapan, however, has lower levels of inequality than almost every other developed country. Indeed, though it has long been an industrial powerhouse, Japan is frequently called the world’s most successful communist country.Japan has a high income-tax rate for the rich (45%), and the inheritance tax rate recently was raised to 55%.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/03/why-inequality-is-different-in-japan/

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Japan’s stubborn gender inequality problem - East Asia Forum

(3 days ago) WEBA. A. A. Gender inequality is a stubbornly entrenched problem for Japan. It ranked 120 out of 156 countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index (GGI) Report 2021, which measures the gap between men and women in political representation, economic empowerment, education and health. This puts Japan at the …

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2022/06/28/japans-stubborn-gender-inequality-problem/

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Health inequalities in Japan: the role of material, psychosocial

(1 days ago) WEBThe extent that risk factors, identified in Western countries, account for health inequalities in Japan remains unclear. We analysed a nationally representative sample (Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions surveyed in 2001 (n = 40,243)). The cross-sectional association between self-rated fair o …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24581079/

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Japan’s Gender Gap – IMF Finance & Development Magazine

(1 days ago) WEBWhile this rank is a slight improvement over 114 out of 146 in 2017, it remains the same or lower than in the preceding years (111 in 2016 and 101 in 2015). Among the primary reasons for Japan’s low ranking is its large gender wage gap. At 24.5 percent in 2018, the gender wage gap is the second largest among Organisation for Economic Co

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2019/03/gender-equality-in-japan-yamaguchi

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Japan’s Gender Gap - IMF

(1 days ago) WEBJapan, contemporary Japanese society maintains char - acteristics that cannot even be considered “modern.” Gender at birth is what determines whether a person becomes a manager in Japan, not individual achieve - ment such as earning a college degree. Gender-segregated career tracks are largely to blame for the country’s gender inequality

https://www.imf.org/-/media/Files/Publications/Fandd/Article/2019/March/gender-equality-in-japan-yamaguchi.ashx

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Public perspectives on COVID-19 public health and social …

(7 days ago) WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, was one of the greatest modern public health crises that the world has faced. Countries undertook sweeping public health and social measures (PHSM); including environmental actions such as disinfection and ventilation; surveillance and response, such as contact tracing and quarantine; …

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-024-18866-3

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Health inequities and their causes - World Health Organization …

(9 days ago) WEBHealth inequities are unfair and could be reduced by the right mix of government policies. Every day 16 000 children die before their fifth birthday. Maternal mortality is a key indicator of health inequity. Tuberculosis is a disease of poverty. 87% of premature deaths due to noncommunicable diseases occur in low- and middle-income …

https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/health-inequities-and-their-causes

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Trends in the geographic inequality of advanced practice nursing

(4 days ago) WEBCancer was ranked as the second leading cause of global mortality in 2019, with an increasing incidence. An adequate workforce of healthcare professionals with special skills and knowledge in cancer care is vital for addressing the disparities in cancer prognosis. This study aimed to elucidate the trends in the advanced practice nursing …

https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-024-00922-z

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What is health inequity? Definition, examples, and root causes

(7 days ago) WEBSummary. Health inequity refers to avoidable differences in health between different groups of people. Examples of health inequity include lower life expectancy, high rates of mental ill-health

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/health-inequity

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Japan's household income gap neared record high amid pandemic

(3 days ago) WEBA key parameter for measuring income inequalities, known as the Gini coefficient, came to 0.5700, worsening 0.0106 point from the previous study in 2017.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/08/23/japan/households-income-gap/

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Global report reveals major gaps in menstrual health and hygiene …

(6 days ago) WEBNEW YORK, GENEVA, 28 May 2024 – Around the world, menstrual health and hygiene needs are being overlooked due to limited access to information, education, products and services, as well as inadequate facilities and inequalities. A new report, Progress on drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene in schools 2000–2023: special focus …

https://www.who.int/news/item/28-05-2024-global-report-reveals-major-gaps-in-menstrual-health-and-hygiene-in-schools

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