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Community Health Nursing / Island Community Health Nursing

Community Health Nursing / Island Community Health Nursing

Teacher

Name:Yuko Toyama
Name:Noriko Toyama
Name:Chikako Hokama

Education

Our specialty is Community Health Nursing/ Island Community Health Nursing.
We aim to contribute human resources development to those who can work as leaders in the field.

Research

Research topics
  • Relationship between social capital and disaster preparedness in parents raising infants.
  • Prevention of abuse by public health nurses supporting children and mothers in Japan.
  • Factors influencing the choice of facility-based delivery in the ethnic minority villages of Lao PDR: a qualitative case study.
  • Designing a scale to assess family nursing practice among public health nurses in Japan
  • Qualitative study of breastfeeding support by public health nurses in Japan
  • Assessment of the impact of village health volunteers working in pairs on the utilization of antenatal care in Xepon District

Title of thesis for Master or Doctor of Health Sciences

Master
  • Association between dietary behavior, frequency of fast food restaurant use and obesity among workers in Okinawa
  • Promotion of comfortable working place to improve worker’s mental health status by occupational health nurse
Doctor
  • Relationship between social capital and disaster preparedness in parents raising infants
  • Relationship between individual-level social capital including social trust, traditional local events and Moai, and mental health among middle-aged adults in Okinawa