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Public Health Lab
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A lab that works with towns and communities in Hokkaido to explore a society where people can live healthy lives.
AboutAbout the lab
Protecting and improving the health of everyone living in society
The lab conducts research to protect and improve the physical and mental health of all people living in society, from fetuses and newborns to older adults.
Public health rests on three pillars: building social systems, research that provides the evidence for them, and practice toward better living.
To make these three work well in communities, workplaces, and schools, the lab carries out projects such as health surveys in collaboration with towns in Hokkaido and follow-up studies of older adults.
Key terms
- Public health
- The study of protecting and improving the health of people as a population. It covers disease prevention and the building of social systems.
- Healthy life expectancy
- The length of time a person can live without daily life being limited by health problems.
- Long-term care prevention
- Efforts to prevent or delay older adults from reaching a state in which they need long-term care.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts research to protect and improve people's health in communities, workplaces, schools, and other settings. It works on many projects, including health surveys of residents in collaboration with towns in Hokkaido and long-term follow-up studies of older adults.
*Illustrative imageA Survey for Building Towns Where People Can Live Healthy Lives
Suttsu Town and Hokkaido University collaborate to examine residents' health status, lifestyle habits such as diet and exercise, and living environments including means of transportation and community ties. The lab aims to identify factors that extend healthy life expectancy and to contribute to building towns where people can live healthy lives in their own way.
*Illustrative imageDiet and Physical Activity of People in Hokkaido
This is a survey to clarify the actual state of lifestyle habits, including diet, among people living in Hokkaido. Participants who give their consent are followed over time, and the lab also examines how diet and other lifestyle habits relate to extending healthy life expectancy and preventing the need for long-term care.
*Illustrative imageLong-Term Care Prevention for Older Adults in the Community
The lab examines physical activity, nutrition, oral function, social participation, and other factors among older adults living in Higashikawa, Higashikagura, and Biei. This is a joint project with the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES), aiming at long-term care prevention and extending healthy life expectancy.
*Illustrative imageFactors Leading to Healthy Aging
The lab follows community residents who are turning 65 and examines how lifestyle habits and test results in early old age relate to their later health. It aims to identify factors involved in keeping older adults healthy and preventing disease and disability.
MembersFaculty
The members of the lab consist of faculty, postdoctoral researchers, visiting researchers, invited faculty, administrative staff, and doctoral and master's students.As of 2026
- ProfessorAkiko Tamakoshi
- Associate ProfessorEri Maeda
- Assistant ProfessorIsaku Kurotori
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Koshimizu yamubetsu” Opqr / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- A Survey for Building Towns Where People Can Live Healthy Lives: “Benkei-misaki Lighthouse” 切干大根 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Diet and Physical Activity of People in Hokkaido: “Baron potato (Baron) - panoramio” pakku / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Long-Term Care Prevention for Older Adults in the Community: “Higashikawa, Hokkaido - panoramio” MNRNSD / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Factors Leading to Healthy Aging: “Sphygmomanometer” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Health Policy Evaluation Lab): “National Diet Building” Kakidai / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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