Naito, Toshio Yan, Yan Tabe, Yoko Seyama, Kuniaki Deshpande, Gautam A
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Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics
Evidence of BNT126b2 vaccine effectiveness and breakthrough has been primarily demonstrated in populations outside of Asia; studies in the Western Pacific region are limited. Our retrospective cohort study assessed SARS-CoV-2 cases after vaccine rollout starting from mid-March 2021 at a tertiary hospital in Tokyo. Of 8,749 staff members, no fully v...
Goodwin, Robin Takahashi, Masahito
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Journal of psychiatric research
Widely shared traumas have the potential to both improve and impair our relationships with others. During COVID-19 anxiety has been seen as a major individual vulnerability associated with relationship change, as have the wider economic, situational factors facing families and communities. In this national sample of 997 Japanese respondents we asse...
He, Yupeng Yatsuya, Hiroshi Ota, Atsuhiko Tabuchi, Takahiro
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Public Health in Practice (Oxford, England)
Objectives To examin whether public trust was associated with the utilization of COVID-19 Contact Confirming Application (COCOA) in those who self-reported a history of COVID-19. Study design Cross-sectional study. Methods Data were obtained from the Japan Society and New Tobacco Internet Survey, a nationwide online survey conducted from February t...
Niu, Qian Liu, Junyu Kato, Masaya Nagai-Tanima, Momoko Aoyama, Tomoki
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Journal of Medical Internet Research
Background The global public health and socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been substantial, rendering herd immunity by COVID-19 vaccination an important factor for protecting people and retrieving the economy. Among all the countries, Japan became one of the countries with the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates in several months, ...
Dhungel, Bibha Wada, Koji Tanaka, Hirokazu Gilmour, Stuart
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Archives of Public Health
For the last three decades, Japan has been using the population of 1985 for age standardisation to compare mortality rates over time. With the population of Japan declining and ageing rapidly every year, there is a need to update the standard population to make the comparison representative of the current scenario. This is particularly relevant owi...
kuroishi;, on of on of makiko
The previous studies found that women and low-income households were more likely to experience unemployment prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is no cohort study to examine the relationship during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this prospective cohort study is to examine the relationship between sociodemographic factors and unemploym...
Miyama, Takeshi Kakimoto, Kensaku Iritani, Nobuhiro Motomura, Kazushi
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IJID Regions
Objectives : Longer reporting lag after symptom onset reportedly exerts substantial impacts on onward transmissions, increasing outbreak probability. The present study investigated risk factors associated with reporting lag. Methods : Using active epidemiological surveillance data for all symptomatic cases reported in Osaka Prefecture during the fi...
Arafa, Ahmed Eshak, Ehab S. Shirai, Kokoro Muraki, Isao Tamakoshi, Akiko Iso, Hiroyasu
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Journal of Epidemiology
Kobayashi, Takaki Tani, Yukako Kino, Shiho Fujiwara, Takeo Kondo, Katsunori Kawachi, Ichiro
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Journal of epidemiology
Engagement in leisure activities among older people is associated with a lower risk of mortality. However, no studies have been conducted focusing on the difference of associations with mortality risk among multiple types of leisure activities. We examined prospectively the association of engagement in leisure activities with all-cause mortality in...
chiaki sano, ryuichi ohta;
Bedside teaching is essential in family medicine education so that residents may learn about various clinical conditions and develop professional skills. In particular, bedside teaching is useful in a rural context because rural family medicine deals with a broad scope of biopsychosocial problems among older patients. Accordingly, based on an induc...
