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Public Health Nursing Lab
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A public health nursing lab that clarifies the support skills and actual practice of public health nurses.
AboutAbout the lab
Linking practice and theory, and learning from each other
The Public Health Nursing Lab studies the activities of public health nurses and the skills that support them.
The lab describes public health nurses as front runners in public health nursing, working on responses to disasters and infectious diseases, prevention of bullying and abuse, and improvement of lifestyle habits.
The lab states its aim of linking practice and theory to train people with practical ability, research ability, and leadership.
Its research themes include support for mental health and maternal and child health, understanding the actual state of health activities, and evaluating learning programs for public health nurses.
Key terms
- Public health nursing
- Nursing that supports the health of communities, such as organizations and districts, in addition to individuals. It is carried out by public health nurses
- Public health nurse
- A professional who supports the health of people in the community. Public health nurses also handle responses to disasters and infectious diseases, prevention of abuse, and more
- Health guidance
- Support provided by public health nurses that encourages behavior change in lifestyle habits
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts research that clarifies the support skills of public health nurses and the actual state of their health activities. It also works on childcare and family support for people with mental illness, evaluation of learning programs for public health nurses, and pre-service and in-service education and reflection for public health nurses.
*Illustrative imageSupport skills of public health nurses
The lab studies family support by public health professionals in government when connecting a person with schizophrenia to treatment. It has also written up, as papers, the activities of public health nurses in remote areas from the postwar period through the period of high economic growth.
*Illustrative imageChildcare and family support for people with mental illness
The lab studies the process by which women with mental illness decide on family planning. It has also co-developed and piloted a peer-led learning program in which people with mental illness learn about intimate relationships and romantic relationships.
*Illustrative imageActual state of health activities and skills of public health nurses
The lab compares the materials that municipal public health nurses prepare for handover work by years of experience and type of governing body. It also studies the core skill items of public health nurses in the initial health guidance for preventing lifestyle-related diseases.
*Illustrative imageEvaluation of learning programs for public health nurses
The lab evaluates the feasibility of a short workplace health program, led by employees, that encourages lifestyle changes. For public health nurses, it studies the effects of a reflection-based program for improving health guidance skills.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Public Health Nursing Lab consist of faculty, Visiting Professors and Professors Emeritus, students in the doctoral program, the master's program, and graduation research (fourth-year undergraduates), and administrative assistants.As of 2026
- ProfessorMasako Kageyama
- Associate ProfessorKeiko Koide
- Assistant ProfessorMiho Tanaka
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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: “GCC Nursing & Health Tech Convocation ( )” Germanna CC / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Support skills of public health nurses: “Public Health Nurse in Gushikawa Village Office” USCAR(United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands) / Public domain (cropped)
- Childcare and family support for people with mental illness: “A family in Gwynns Falls-Leakin Park” 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)
- Actual state of health activities and skills of public health nurses: “Blood pressure cuff” Sistema d’Emergències Mèdiques (SEM) / CC BY-SA 3.0 igo (cropped)
- Evaluation of learning programs for public health nurses: “Soy-whey-protein-diet” Peggy Greb, USDA ARS / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Acute and Palliative Care Lab): “Patient lying in hospital bed in intensive care unit in Germany in 2015” Pittigrilli / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Perioperative Management Lab): “AusMAT team members performing surgery ( )” Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Lab): “Nursing staff, St Mary's Hospital” Ardosion / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Chronic Illness Nursing Lab): “Nurse checks blood pressure” Linda Bartlett (Photographer) / Public domain (cropped)
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