Overview
- Editors:
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Tomoki Nakaya
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Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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Yuri Ito
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Department of Medical Statistics, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Japan
- Presents maps depicting the contemporary health of the Japanese population
- Discusses various cutting-edge methods in spatial epidemiology
- Highlights geographical aspects of social gradients in health
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxix
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- Tomoki Nakaya, Keisuke Fukui, Yuri Ito, Keiji Yano, Yuzuru Isoda, Naoki Kondo
Pages 9-27
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- Tomoki Nakaya, Yuri Ito, Kazumasa Hanaoka
Pages 29-72
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- Yuri Ito, Yoshikazu Nishino, Seiki Kanemura, Tomoki Nakaya
Pages 73-160
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- Ryozo Matsuda, Shigeru Inoue, Hiroyuki Kikuchi, Yuri Ito
Pages 161-245
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- Takahiro Tabuchi, Mayuko Yonejima, Tomoya Hanibuchi, Tomoki Nakaya
Pages 247-295
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Back Matter
Pages 307-343
About this book
This new health atlas of Japan presents a series of maps about the health of the contemporary Japanese population, i.e. detailed maps of health indicators in small areas using cartograms. This is the first comprehensive small-area based health atlas about contemporary Japan using vital statistics from 1995-2014. Each map is supplemented with concise explanations written by leading epidemiologists and health geographers in Japan. The book employs various cutting-edge methods in spatial epidemiology, Bayesian spatial smoothing for the reliable mapping of mortality indices, advanced cartographic transformations using the concept of aerial cartograms, and summary statistics of socioeconomic health inequalities. The atlas highlights geographical aspects of social gradients in health by comparing mortality maps with distribution of deprivation index during the recent long-lasting economic stagnation period of Japan known as the lost decades. This health atlas will be a usefulresource for international comparisons between Japan and other advanced countries in terms of health and related socioeconomic disparities between regions. It will be of interest to public health practitioners, administrators, researchers and students working on health geography and public health.
Editors and Affiliations
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Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Tomoki Nakaya
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Department of Medical Statistics, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Japan
Yuri Ito
About the editors
Dr. Tomoki Nakaya is a Professor of Environmental Geography in the Department of Frontier Science for Advanced Environment at Tohoku University, Japan. Dr. Nakaya has authored about 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals, over 40 book chapters, and co-edited 3 volumes. His research interests include statistical modelling and GIS in human geography, spatial epidemiology, and health GIS.
