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Public Health Policy Lab
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A lab that studies the social systems that shape health and the quality of health care.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring health care quality and disparities through social systems
Associate Professor Atsushi Miyawaki, head of the Public Health Policy field in the Institute of Medicine at the University of Tsukuba, studies the social structures and systems that affect health and the quality of, and access to, health care.
The behavior and preferences of health care actors are also subjects of his research.
After initial clinical training as a physician, Associate Professor Miyawaki majored in health policy and applied statistics in graduate school.
The lab conducts research using public statistics from Japan and the US, claims (receipt) data, electronic medical record data, and more.
Key terms
- Receipt (insurance claim)
- The itemized statement that a medical institution submits to health insurance to claim payment for the care it provided. Large volumes of treatment records can be collected and analyzed
- Causal inference
- A statistical approach for examining whether one event is the cause of another, as distinct from a mere association
- Natural experiment
- A method for examining cause-and-effect relationships by using differences that arose without an experiment being conducted, such as those caused by a policy change, as if they were an experiment
ResearchResearch themes
Associate Professor Atsushi Miyawaki studies the social structures and systems that affect health and the quality of, and access to, health care. The lab uses public statistics from Japan and the US, claims (receipt) and electronic medical record data, cohort surveys, and panel surveys, and often applies causal inference methods such as natural experiments.
*Illustrative imageThe structure of overuse in health care
The lab studies the structure of overuse in health care (for example, low-value care) as one of its main current topics.
*Illustrative imagePhysician-side factors in health care quality and disparities
The lab studies how factors on the physician side are involved in the quality of health care and in disparities.
*Illustrative imageHealth services research on older adults
The lab treats health services research on older adults as one of its main current topics.
*Illustrative imageSocial determinants of health and public health policy
The lab treats public health policy addressing the social determinants of health as one of its main current topics.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorMasao Iwagami
- Associate ProfessorAtsushi Miyawaki
- Project Assistant ProfessorJun Komiyama
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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: “Outpatient waiting area” Inodayahospitals / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- The structure of overuse in health care: “Hospital room ubt” Tomasz Sienicki [user: tsca, mail: tomasz.sienicki at gmail.com] / Public domain (cropped)
- Physician-side factors in health care quality and disparities: “Doctor sitting at a table during a consultation in a clinic office” Shixart1985 / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Health services research on older adults: “Elderly man walking with a stick and one hand on his back” William Murphy / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Social determinants of health and public health policy: “Marshall Field Garden Apartments” victorgrigas / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Health Policy and Health Economics Lab): “A waiting room at a medical healthcare clinic, doctor's office, hospital” Harrison Keely / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Integrative Health Information Lab): “People walking the Gwynns Falls Trail” John Dean https://www.johndeanphoto.com did the drone videography in the video. He did it for Friends of Gwynns Falls / Leakin Park. John Dean has agreed that these screen captures can be licensed under CC ShareAlike 3.0. / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Social Health Medicine Lab): “Community health fair improves healthcare accessibility on St Kitts, Nevis (8978317)” U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Stephani Schafer / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Pediatric Environmental Medicine Lab): “Children playing outdoors” U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service / Public domain (cropped)
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