HOMEProfessor Kiyoshi Aoyagi

Faculty

Professor Kiyoshi Aoyagi

Speciality / Research theme / Keywords
Public Health
Supervision
Masters Programme

Qualifications

PhD

Personal/work Web page addresses

http://www.med.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/public-h/staff/index.html

Affiliation(s)

Department of Public Health, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Background

  • 1979 – 1985 – Nagasaki University School of Medicine (undergraduate)
  • 1989 – 1989 – Nagasaki University Graduate School of Medicine
  • 1989 Nagasaki University Hospital (Orthopedics)
  • 1989 Tagawa City Hospital (Orthopedics)
  • 1991 Kitakyushu General Hospital (Orthopedics)
  • 1993 Mitsugi General Hospital (Orthopedics)
  • 1995 Hawaii Osteoporosis Center (Research fellow)
  • 1996 Nagasaki University Hospital (Orthopedics)
  • 1997 Public Health, Nagasaki University School of Medicine
  • 2002 Professor, Public Health, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences 2007 Professor, Graduate School of International Health Development Nagasaki University

Teaching

  • 1998 – present – Medical care & Public Health
  • 2001 – present – Thesis Research on Public Health
  • 2001 – present – Seminar on Public Health
  • 2001 – present – Practice on Public Health
  • 2002 – 2003 – First-year Seminar
  • 2004 – 2009 – Health Science
  • 2007 – 2014 – Environmental Health
  • 2012 – 2014 – Nutrition and Health

Research

  • Epidemiology of bone health and lifestyle-related disease
  • Statistical analysis of rheumatoid arthritis

The country/countries where you work currently

Japan

Five MOST IMPORTANT/INTERESTING recent publications

  1. Association between fat mass by bioelectrical impedance analysis and bone mass by quantitative ultrasound in relation to grip strength and serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in postmenopausal Japanese women: the Unzen study. Mizukami S, Arima K, Abe Y, Tomita Y, Nakashima H, Honda Y, Uchiyama M, Ookawachi T, Goto H, Hasegawa M, Sou Y, Kanagae M, Osaki M, Aoyagi K. J Physiol Anthropol. 2022 Mar 9;41(1):7. doi: 10.1186/s40101-022-00281-5.
  2. Association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and physical performance measures in middle-aged and old Japanese men and women: The Unzen study. Uchiyama M, Mizukami S, Arima K, Nishimura T, Tomita Y, Abe Y, Tanaka N, Honda Y, Goto H, Hasegawa M, Sou Y, Tsujimoto R, Kanagae M, Osaki M, Aoyagi K. PLoS One. 2021 Dec 23;16(12):e0261639. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261639. eCollection 2021.
  3. Association between vitamin D and bone mineral density in Japanese adults: the Unzen study. Honda Y, Arima K, Nishimura T, Tomita Y, Mizukami S, Abe Y, Tanaka N, Kojima M, Jeng TP, Goto H, Hasegawa M, Sou Y, Tsujimoto R, Kanagae M, Osaki M, Aoyagi K. Arch Osteoporos. 2021 Sep 8;16(1):127. doi: 10.1007/s11657-021-00984-9.
  4.  Epidemiology of the association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and musculoskeletal conditions among elderly individuals: a literature review. Arima K, Mizukami S, Nishimura T, Tomita Y, Nakashima H, Abe Y, Aoyagi K. J Physiol Anthropol. 2020 Nov 26;39(1):38. doi: 10.1186/s40101-020-00249-3.
  5. Association between self-reported walking speed and calcaneal stiffness index in postmenopausal Japanese women. Tomita Y, Arima K, Mizukami S, Tsujimoto R, Kawashiri SY, Nishimura T, Okabe T, Tanaka N, Honda Y, Nakahara K, Yamamoto N, Ohmachi I, Goto H, Hasegawa M, Sou Y, Horiguchi I, Kanagae M, Abe Y, Nonaka F, Tamai M, Yamanashi H, Nagata Y, Kawakami A, Maeda T, Aoyagi K. BMC Geriatr. 2020 Nov 11;20(1):466. doi: 10.1186/s12877-020-01858-4.

Message

Tropical medicine generally concerns developing countries and the problems of community health and disease. In the class, we also cover the basic concepts of public health, policies and measures. In the process of “health transition”, many developing countries have an aging population with a growing number of patients exhibiting heart/cerebrovascular disease and malignant tumors, while traditional infectious diseases are yet to be overcome. In Japan, on the other hand, deaths from infectious diseases have declined, while non-infectious diseases such as heart/cerebrovascular diseases and malignant tumors account for 60% of deaths. We study Japan’s past public health policies and current and future public health measures so as to draw lessons for application to developing countries.

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