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Health Crisis Management Systems / Health Care Economics Lab
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A lab that uses data to visualize the quality, economic efficiency, and equity of health care in order to help build better care.
AboutAbout the lab
Visualizing and improving the quality and equity of health care
The lab aims to improve the quality, efficiency, and equity of health care, and to contribute to building a sustainable, resilient health care system and a society of healthy longevity.
It is an interdisciplinary, problem-solving-oriented field built on statistics and epidemiology, the foundations of social medicine, together with economics, management science, engineering, and the social sciences.
Working closely with society and clinical settings, the lab uses large-scale, diverse data to grasp the big picture, and works on building communities for healthy longevity that are also resilient to health crises.
Key terms
- Health economics
- The study of how money and resources spent on health care are used, from the perspective of economics
- Health crisis management
- Efforts to prepare for threats to health such as infectious disease outbreaks and disasters, and to minimize harm when they occur
- Equity
- Whether the health care people need reaches them without bias
ResearchResearch themes
Centered on "visualizing and improving the quality, economic efficiency, and equity of health care," the lab aims to contribute to the management and policy of health care and long-term care in both normal times and crises, to health crisis management, and to building communities for healthy longevity.
*Illustrative imageManagement and Policy of Health Care and Long-Term Care
The lab carries out joint research with many medical institutions and long-term care facilities across Japan; surveys, participation, and human resource development related to institutional design and management reform; and interdisciplinary community-building initiatives, in collaboration with institutions in Japan and abroad, national and local governments, and others.
*Illustrative imageLarge-Scale Databases for Health Care and Long-Term Care
The lab builds and operates databases on health care, long-term care, and health checkups, uses a wide range of data and information to evaluate the quality and economic efficiency of care, and applies the results to management and policy-making.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorYuichi Imanaka
- Program-Specific Associate ProfessorNoriko Sasaki
- Associate ProfessorSusumu Kunisawa
- Program-Specific LecturerEtsu Goto
- Program-Specific Assistant ProfessorHisashi Itoshima
- Program-Specific Assistant ProfessorYudai Honda
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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).
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/ CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Management and Policy of Health Care and Long-Term Care: “US Navy Lt. Cmdr. Mike Foskett plays the ukulele as local elderly women sing the Chamorro song during a community service project at the Yona-Talofofo Senior Citizens Center in Talofofo” U.S. Navy photo / Public domain (cropped)
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