Summer 2017

Major activities
　・ Research training course for physicians in Vietnam
　・ Health education for elementary school students in Cambodia
　・ EBM promotion TOT in Japan for Vietnamese physicians
Thank you for supports of everyone involved!

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Research Training in Vietnam

Call for participation! Registration form added below (July 19).
Further information is available in the project website.
http://www.fmu.ac.jp/home/public_h/ebm/

Health literacy for health professionals & summer activities

HEALTH LITERACY
Here is a list of our recent publications on health literacy promotion for health professionals.
HL workshop planning and implementation
http://www.med.or.jp/english/journal/pdf/2014_03/146_153.pdf
HL workshop evaluation (one-month)
https://www.med.or.jp/english/journal/pdf/2015_03/05803069.pdf
HL workshop evaluation (one-year)
Seizon Kagaku 2016; 27(2): 191-208.
HL overview
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0146645316666494
HL tools in JPN
http://www.jrias.or.jp/books/pdf/201504_RIJYUKU_GOTO.pdf

SUMMER
In August, one graduate student (Mr. Yoshida) will be working in Cambodia and another student (Ms. Watanabe) in Vietnam.
Health promotion activity with children at CJFS School
http://cjfsedu.blogspot.jp/#!/2013/04/blog-post.html
EBM promotion for physicians (JICA)
http://www.fmu.ac.jp/home/public_h/ebm/

Expanding the work with children
The project with Lancaster University on discussing with children about community development is on-going and expanding. Before Dr. Lloyd William's return visit to Fukushima (Nov 2017), I had a chance to meet with those children whom we worked with last year.
http://www3.schoolweb.ne.jp/weblog/files/0720042/doc/32054/779045.pdf

Welcome and updates

It is my great pleasure to officially announce that the group of International Community Health course has grown. New members are Ms. Hiroko Sato (PhD course), Ms. Nanae Chiba, Ms. Fumiko Fujita and Ms. Luna Kinoshita (MD-PhD program). 国際地域保健学の仲間が3人増えました！

The next Epidemiological Research Training Course in Vietnam will be held from August 5th to 8th. This time, we invite Prof. Takashi Otani (Nagoya University) to teach qualitative research. 次回のベトナムでの研修会は8月5-8日です。今回は質的研究も習えます。
http://www.educa.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~otani/scat/index-e.html

In this fiscal year, we will organize health literacy, data analysis, project management, and parenting workshops for health professionals and residents. Pictures are participants' discussion outputs from an international MCH workshop at Tohoku University. (Exercises: Comparison of existing and new data for community diagnosis, steps to take when importing a model program)

Newly printed health literacy booklets have arrived! Please contact me if you need one to improve your communication with residents and patients. ヘルスリテラシーのツール集改訂版をお使いになりたい方はご連絡ください。

Publication

MD-PｈDコースの学生が、性的児童虐待の低年齢化と、その予防の観点から図書館などの地域資源の重要性を示す論文を出しました。

照井、他．日本における性的児童虐待の近年の動向．厚生の指標 2017; 64: 22-26.

勉強会（2017年5-7月）の予定

場所：8号館6階S602

時間と内容：木曜日
16:30-18:00　修士・博士合同　輪読と抄読
18:00-19:00　博士中心（修士も参加歓迎）　研究検討

輪読の教本：
奥田千恵子　研究デザインに合わせた統計手法の選び方　金芳堂

日程＆担当（輪読/抄読）[研究検討]：
5月 11日　村上研究概論（-）[-]
5月18日　後藤研究概論（-）[吉田、石井]
5月25日　福島医学会学術研究集会
6月 8日　 (廣瀨/渡邊) [弓屋]
6月15日　 (秦/紺野) [小林]
6月22日　 (高橋/鈴木) [樫村]
6月29日　 (鈴木/高橋) [渡邉 ]
7月 6日　 (紺野/秦) [新井]
7月13日　 (渡邊/廣瀨) [佐藤]
7月20日　 (竹林/竹林) [柏崎]

※秋は10月開始予定
※看護学修士課程は10回参加1回発表が必須
※医学博士課程は担当教員に要確認

Updates & announcements

Friendship agreement between University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City and Fukushima Medical University has been tied. ホーチミン市医科薬科大学と福島県立医科大学で友好協定締結。

All courses in the very first year with this new position completed successfully thanks to great collaboration of guest lecturers and active participation of students. 異動して初年度の講義・演習終了。ご協力いただいた講師の皆様、熱心に参加した学生の皆様、ありがとうございました。

I am serving as an editorial committee member of Ministry of Environment's handbook for evacuees who are planning to return home. The book will soon be published in March! (Picture from Dentsu building where the editorial meeting was held.) 環境省の事業で、福島県で故郷に帰る方々向けの手引書の作成に協力。ヘルスリテラシーの視点を取り入れました。3月出版！

Two health literacy workshops were carried out in Koriyama and Fukushima. The next one will be at FMU. 郡山市と福島市でヘルスリテラシー研修を実施。次回は医大。

Welcome! & announcement

Welcome!

We welcome Ms. Yui Yumiya as an "intra-university exchange student" from the Department of Epidemiology. 疫学講座から「学内留学生」として、国際地域保健学で弓屋結さんがヘルスリテラシー関連の研究を始めます。

Health literacy workshop in March

We will organize a health literacy workshop at FMU in March. 学内でヘルスリテラシー研修を3月に実施予定です。関心のある方は掲示をお待ちください。

Activity report at the start of 2017

Two special lectures have been completed successfully with an attendance of many active participants!　These were about working with children in Fukushima (Dr. Alison Lloyd Williams) and health literacy promotion at the organizational level (Mr. Alden Y Lai). ２つの特別講義へのご参加ありがとうございました。これから楽しんでいただける企画を続けます。
In this week, we also organized a health literacy workshop and a meeting.　今週はヘルスリテラシーの研修や会議も行いました。ヘルスリテラシーにご関心のある方はお声かけください。