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Social Epidemiology Lab
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The lab studies how education, income, and social connections relate to health, and works to build a society where everyone can become healthy.
AboutAbout the lab
Toward a society where everyone becomes healthy naturally.
Social epidemiology studies how social circumstances such as education, income, occupation, and social connections, as well as the social environment, including policy, culture, the economy, and income inequality, affect people's health.
The lab clarifies these "social determinants of health" and conducts research and development to reduce the health disparities that arise from them.
Working closely with sociology, economics, behavioral science, policy science, cultural anthropology, and other fields, the lab promotes the creation of a society where everyone can become healthy naturally, aiming to achieve well-being for all people.
The lab hosts the Social Impact Evaluation endowed course, established in 2024.
Key terms
- Social determinants of health
- Social conditions that affect health, such as education, income, and social connections
- Social prescribing
- An approach that connects people struggling with issues such as isolation to community activities and social connections
- Well-being
- A good state in which a person is fulfilled physically, mentally, and socially
ResearchResearch themes
The lab clarifies the social determinants of health and strengthens implementation research to address health disparities.
*Illustrative imageInternational collaborative research on older adults' health and society
Through the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES), the lab carries out international collaborative research on the social determinants of health among older adults, involving many municipalities across Japan and partners overseas.
*Illustrative imageSocial prescribing and cultural prescribing
The lab develops mechanisms for building inclusive, community-based societies that respond to social isolation and poverty.
*Illustrative imageSocial services that make people healthy naturally
Based on behavioral science, the lab develops social services that help people become healthy naturally, without having to think about it.
*Illustrative imagePersonalized public health driven by data
Using diverse data from Japan and abroad, the lab develops data systems that propose responses tailored to each individual based on their attributes and characteristics.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorNaoki Kondo
- Associate ProfessorDaisuke Takagi
- LecturerMaho Haseda
- Assistant ProfessorYukiko Honda
- Assistant ProfessorHiroshi Habu
- Assistant ProfessorYaya Li
- Assistant ProfessorNana Ishimura
- Assistant ProfessorHaruna Kawauchi
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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: “An elderly Japanese man sittiong on a small wooden pier drawing Mount Fuji as seen at sunrise across lake Kawaguchi, with Fujikawaguchiko town in the foreground. Honshu Island. Japan” Mstyslav Chernov/Unframe/unframe.com / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- International collaborative research on older adults' health and society: “Korea-2008 Gyeongju Citizens' Athletics Festival-Gateball-01” Grete Howard at Flickr / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Social prescribing and cultural prescribing: “Radio calisthenics of Japanese Summer” Mr.ち
ゅらさん / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Social services that make people healthy naturally: “Vegetables in the supermarket - Massachusetts” Daderot / CC0 (cropped)
- Personalized public health driven by data: “Snow-cholera-map-1” John Snow / Public domain (cropped)
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