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What factors promote or hinder health service seeking behaviors and good health practices? My research interest is to investigate such factors, both in the demand and supply sides of health services, based on insights from microeconomics and behavioral economics as well as theories and practices in the global and community health.

My research topics are as follows:

1. Develop a method of measuring the level of the adoption of good practices
2. Explore effective training methods for different types of good practices
3. Identify the impact of the human capital and social networks that the participants of training possess on their adoption decision of good practices
4. Measure willingness to use health services and exercise good health practices through experimental methods and questionnaire surveys

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Efficient dissemination and implementation are essential for shortening the time to bring research findings into practice. I have been working on especially dissemination, which affects implementation. The main topic was to “epidemiologically” examine the potential of online tools (mainly online videos) to disseminate beneficial research findings. How fast can we disseminate information broadly and quickly among health care professionals? This kind of area is categorised as health communication. Sounds like there is nothing to do with epidemiology. However, epidemiology is all about examining the association between “exposure (cause)” and “outcome (effect)” and can be applied to solving all different types of issues. I would like to continue to the second stage, implementation, to examine factors that affect behavioural change to shorten the time between evidence and practice. I will also work on varieties of global health issues utilising my knowledge and skills of epidemiology.

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