What's New
Professor Masamine Jimba chaired the session on health security and UHC during Health Professional Meeting (H20) 2019, co-hosted by World Medical Association and Japan Medical Association.
Department of Community and Global Health co-hosted Workshop on positive deviance approach with PD Japan.
Professor Masamine Jimba chaired the session on disparity in access to healthcare in Japan and overseas at General Assembly of the Japanese Association of Medical Sciences.
Special lecture by Dr. Anand Joshi (Public Health and Infectious Disease Research Center, Nepal) was held.
Eight master 1st year students and six Ph.D. 1st year students join Department of Community and Global Health.
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Our Ph.D. student from April 2019, Mr. Mohammed BA Sarhan, was awarded top prize for best poster atLancet Palestinian Health Alliance (LPHA) 10th Annual Conference.
Department of Community and Global Health held a research exchange workshop with Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Seoul National University.
Professor Masamine Jimba was elected as President of Japan Association for International Health.
New papers published.
Determinants of continuum of care for maternal, newborn, and child health services in rural Khammouane, Lao PDR.
Sakuma S, Yasuoka J, Phongluxa K, Jimba M.
PLoS One. 2019 Apr 23;14(4):e0215635.
Myanmar's human resources for health: current situation and its challenges.
Saw YM, Than TM, Thaung Y, Aung S, Wen-Shuan Shiao L, Win EM, Khaing M, Tun NA, Iriyama S, Win HH, Sakisaka K, Jimba M, Hamajima N, Saw TN.
Heliyon. 2019 Mar 27;5(3):e01390.
Quality gap in maternal and newborn healthcare: a cross-sectional study in Myanmar.
Okawa S, Win HH, Leslie HH, Nanishi K, Shibanuma A, Aye PP, Jimba M.
BMJ Glob Health. 2019 Mar 19;4(2):e001078.
Advice on healthy pregnancy, delivery, motherhood and information on non-communicable diseases in the maternal care programme in Myanmar: a cross-sectional study.
Okawa S, Win HH, Nanishi K, Shibanuma A, Aye PP, Saw TN, Jimba M.
BMJ Open. 2019 Mar 30;9(3):e025186.
Perceptions of adolescent health literacy in the Palestinian social context: a qualitative study.
Sarhan BAM, Kitamura A, Fujiya R, Jimba M, Giacaman R.
Japanese Journal of Health Education and Promotion. 2019;27(1):29-42.
Prevalence of G6PD Viangchan variant in malaria endemic areas in Lao PDR: an implication for malaria elimination by 2030.
Ong KIC, Iwagami M, Araki H, Khattignavong P, Soundala P, Keomalaphet S, Prasayasith P, Lorpachan L, Xangsayalath P, Pongvongsa T, Hongvanthong B, Brey PT, Kano S, Jimba M.
Malar J. 2019 Mar 12;18(1):75.
[Correspondence] Health-care disparities for foreign residents in Japan.
Yasukawa K, Sawada T, Hashimoto H, Jimba M.
Lancet. 2019 Mar 2;393(10174):873-874.
Mental health disorders and substance use among people living with HIV in Nepal: their influence on non-adherence to anti-retroviral therapy.
Pokhrel KN, Pokhrel KG, Sharma VD, Poudel KC, Neupane SR, Mlunde LB, Jimba M.
AIDS Care. 2019 Mar 5:1-9.
Determinants of depressive symptoms in Filipino senior citizens of the community-based ENGAGE study.
Carandang RR, Shibanuma A, Kiriya J, Asis E, Chavez DC, Meana M, Murayama H, Jimba M.
Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2019 Feb 19;82:186-191.
In Memoriam: Professor Takusei Umenai (1941-2018): Hi, Let's Create a Novel Paradigm for Health Science!
Takahashi K, Jimba M.
Asia Pac J Public Health. 2019 Feb 22:1010539519832477.
Women's knowledge on common non-communicable diseases and nutritional need during pregnancy in three townships of Ayeyarwaddy region, Myanmar: a cross-sectional study.
Thandar MM, Kiriya J, Shibanuma A, Ong KIC, Tin KN, Win HH, Jimba M.
Trop Med Health. 2019 Jan 29;47:12.
Virologic failure in HIV-positive adolescents with perfect adherence in Uganda: a cross-sectional study.
Natukunda J, Kirabira P, Ong KIC, Shibanuma A, Jimba M.
Tropical Medicine and Health. 2019;47:8.
Factors associated with concurrent sexual partnerships among men who have sex with men in Yangon, Myanmar.
Saw TN, Yasuoko J, Saw YM, Than TM, Win EM, Aung ZZ, Cho SM, Shibanuma A, Poudel KC, Win HH, Iriyama S, Jimba M.
Nagoya J Med Sci. 2018 Nov;80(4):505-518.
Health and dignity of Palestine refugees at stake: a need for international response to sustain crucial life services at UNRWA.
Kitamura A, Jimba M, MaCahey J, Paolucci G, Shah S, Hababeh M, Shahin Y, Seita A.
Lancet.2018 Dec 22 -Jan 4 2019; 392:2736–44.
[Correspondence]Shrink the universal health coverage cube.
Jimba M, Fujimura SM.
Lancet. 2018 Dec 13; 392:2551.
The Knowledge and Awareness for Radiocesium Food Monitoring after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident in Nihonmatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture.
Kunii N, Fujimura MS, Komasa Y, Kitamura A, Sato H, Takatsuji T, Jimba M, Kimura S.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Oct 18;15(10).
The coverage of continuum of care in maternal, newborn and child health: a cross-sectional study of woman-child pairs in Ghana.
Shibanuma A, Yeji F, Okawa S, Mahama E, Kikuchi K, Narh K, Enuameh Y, Nanishi K, Oduro A, Owusu-Agyei S, Gyapong M, Asare GQ, Yasuoka J, Ansah EK, Hodgson A, Jimba M,the Ghana EMBRACE Implementation Research Project Team.
BMJ Global Health 2018;3:e000786.
Nepalese migrants in Japan: What is holding them back in getting access to healthcare?
Shakya P, Tanaka M, Shibanuma A, Jimba M.
PLoS One. 2018 Sep 7;13(9):e0203645.
Different Pfcrt genotypes and related microsatellite DNA polymorphisms on Plasmodium falciparum differed among populations in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
Iwagami M, Tangpukdee N, Wilairatana P, Krudsood S, Dao LD, Nakazawa S, Sinuon M, Socheat D, Yasuoka J, Jimba M, Watanabe H, Kobayashi J, Toma H, Vanisaveth V, Hongvanthong B, Brey PT, Kano S.
Parasitol Int. 2018 Aug 27. pii: S1383-5769(17)30395-1.
[Comment]HIV care continuum for key populations in Indonesia
Poudel KC, Jimba M.
Lancet HIV. 2018 Aug 21. pii: S2352-3018(18)30169-3.
Mothers' Opisthorchis viverrini infection status and raw fish dish consumption in Lao People's Democratic Republic: determinants of child infection status.
Araki H, Ong KIC, Lorphachan L, Soundala P, Iwagami M, Shibanuma A, Hongvanthong B, Brey PT, Kano S, Jimba M.
Trop Med Health. 2018 Aug 7;46:29.
Agreement on Reporting Intimate Partner Violence Among Nepalese Couples: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Yoshikawa K, Shakya TM, Poudel KC, Jimba M.
J Interpers Violence. 2018 Jul 1:886260518788371.
Bottom-up approach to strengthen community-based malaria control strategy from community health workers' perceptions of their past, present, and future: a qualitative study in Palawan, Philippines.
Matsumoto-Takahashi ELA, Tongol-Rivera P, Villacorte EA, Angluben RU, Jimba M, Kano S.
Trop Med Health. 2018 Jul 4;46:24.
Perceived social support, coping, and stigma on the quality of life of people living with HIV in Nepal: a moderated mediation analysis.
Shrestha S, Shibanuma A, Poudel KC, Nanishi K, Koyama Abe M, Shakya SK, Jimba M.
AIDS Care. 2018 Jul 11:1-8. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2018.1497136.
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