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Department of Health Science and Community-Based Nursing

General Description of the Department and the Course

In the area of community health nursing, we aims to promote public health, people living in the community to improve the health, from children to seniors. This area captures a wide range, including school health and nursing field. We provide the educational programs which focus on providing nursing care for residents with various levels of health status in the community.
In the area of psychiatric and mental health nursing, the programs focus on acquiring knowledge and skills in order to understand characteristic of individuals with mentally ill and their families, prevention and promotion in mental health.
In the area of gerontological and community-based nursing, the program focuses on acquiring knowledge and skills in order to understand characteristic of the elderly and individuals who need community-based nursing and provide nursing care for them and their family members.
In the area of health science, we cover fundamental health issues in the various situations of life, and environmental issues including their causes. We then provide education that enable students to obtain a better understanding of these issues and analyze those using fundamental knowledge of epidemiology and statistics.

Members of the Faculty

Community health nursing
 Yoko Yamazaki, RN, PHN, MSN: Professor
 Chiyori Haga, RN, PHN, MSN: Assistant Professor

Psychiatric and mental health nursing
 Eriko Mizuno, RN, PHN, PhD:Associate Professor
 Ikue Sakai, RN, PHN, MSN:Assistant Professor
 Tomohito Nagata, RN, PHN:Research Associate

Gerontological and community-based nursing
 Shizue Nitta, RN, PhD: Professor
 Jindi Chen, RN, PHN, PhD: Assistant Professor
 Yoko Furuya, RN, PhD: Assistant Professor

Health science
 Sumio Iijima, MHS, PhD: Professor
 Yoko Furuya, RN, PhD: Assistant Professor

General Description of the Research Activities (Themes)

Community health nursing
  * Community based nursing care systems
  * Research on the education methods in community health nursing
  * Research on the local activities of public health nurses
Psychiatric and mental health nursing
  * Community-based nursing therapeutic intervention for schizophrenic
   patients and families
  * Psychiatric rehabilitation for long-stay inpatients
  * Work stress and mental health
  * Palliative care and holistic approach to cancer patients and family/
   cancer survivors
Gerontological and community-based nursing
  * Community-based nursing care systems
  * Nursing intervention for the elderly with chronic health problems and their
   family members in the community
Health science
  * Life-style related factors and health
  * Health problems on precarious workers

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