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Community Health Nursing/Public Health Nursing Lab
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The lab identifies health issues in communities and society and creates ways to solve them.
AboutAbout the lab
Identifying and solving health issues in communities and society.
The Community Health Nursing/Public Health Nursing Lab conducts research that clarifies health issues in communities and society and finds solutions to them.
The lab aims to fulfill the wish for "healthy longevity": living healthily throughout life and growing old in peace.
Working with a variety of fields, the lab creates theories, techniques, measurement scales, and programs that help solve these issues, and shares them with society.
The master's program also offers a course for obtaining a public health nurse qualification.
Key terms
- Community assessment
- Community assessment: a method of examining the health status and daily lives of people in a community to identify that community's health issues and needs
- Higher brain dysfunction
- Higher brain dysfunction: a disorder in which, after a brain disease or injury, functions such as memory, attention, and planning and carrying out actions do not work well
- Community Comprehensive Support Center
- Community Comprehensive Support Center: a municipal office that provides consultation and support on long-term care, medical care, and welfare so that older adults can continue living in the communities they are used to
NewsLab news
Paper on social capital and oral frailty in older adults published in PLoS ONE
Paper by Assistant Professor Tanaka et al. published in Japan Journal of Nursing Science
Scoping review by Assistant Professor Tanaka et al. published in Japan Journal of Nursing Science
Paper by doctoral students et al. published in Social Sciences
Assistant Professor Kobayashi et al. received the Outstanding Poster Award at the 35th National Conference of the Japan Society for Occupational Health
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies methods for identifying the health issues and needs of communities and society, as well as the theories, techniques, and programs for preventing and solving those issues. Its subjects include older adults, family caregivers, working people, and public health nurses, as well as the communities they live in.
*Illustrative imageIdentifying and solving community health issues
The lab is developing tools and methodologies (community assessment methods) for appropriately identifying the health issues and needs of communities and society, as well as theories, techniques, programs, and systems for preventing and solving those issues.
*Illustrative imageSupporting families of people with higher brain dysfunction
The lab developed a support program that strengthens the adaptability of family caregivers of community-dwelling people with higher brain dysfunction and improves their quality of life. With the cooperation of family associations across Japan, it conducted a trial to confirm the program's effectiveness.
*Illustrative imageInterprofessional collaboration to protect workers' health
In occupational health settings, where the health of company employees is protected, the lab focuses on how nurses collaborate with other professionals and is developing a model for that collaboration.
*Illustrative imagePublic health nurses' community-building skills
To help older adults continue living in the communities they are used to, the lab clarifies the specialized community-building skills of public health nurses at Community Comprehensive Support Centers and works on developing human resource training programs.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Community Health Nursing/Public Health Nursing Lab consist of faculty members, doctoral and master's graduate students, and undergraduates doing graduation theses in the lab seminar.As of 2026
- ProfessorEtsuko Tadaka
- LecturerYuka Iwata
- Assistant ProfessorKisaki Kobayashi
- Assistant ProfessorYuko Tanaka
- Assistant ProfessorAyuka Yokoyama
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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: “Sapporo City Skyline” ノボホショコロトソ / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Identifying and solving community health issues: “Residential street in Ikenohata 2, Taitō, Tokyo, Japan, 2024 May” Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Supporting families of people with higher brain dysfunction: “The Human Brain Model 02” Edeh Sophia / CC0 (cropped)
- Interprofessional collaboration to protect workers' health: “Yellow hard hat” רנדום / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Public health nurses' community-building skills: “DFC 1421 Quiet residential street with parked scooters and low-rise houses under a clear blue sky” PattayaPatrol / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (精神看護学教室): “Depressed man sits in a chair by a window looking out at trees and a green landscape on a sunny day” Shixart1985 / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (小児看護学教室): “DSC 7746 A parent and child walk along the shoreline at sunset the sun casting a golden path across the water” PattayaPatrol / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (基礎看護学教室): “2023 Stetoskop” Jacek Halicki / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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