Specialty

Epidemiology of lifestyle-related diseases, biostatistics

Works

Original papers

1 Ishikawa M, Yokoyama T, Takimoto H. Possible Measures to Improve Both Participation and Response Quality in Japan’s National Health and Nutrition Survey: Results from a Workshop by Local Government Personnel in Charge of the Survey. Nutrients. 2022;14(19):3906. Doi: 10.3390/nu14193906.

2 Matsushita Y, Yokoyama T, Hayakawa K, et al. Smoking and severe illness in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Japan. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2022;51(4):1078-1087. DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyab254

Reviews

1 Yokoyama Y. National Health Promotion Measures in Japan: Health Japan 21(the second term). J Natl Inst Public Health. 2020;69(1):14-24.

Social contributions

Promotion of Health Japan 21 (3rd ed.), Expert Committee Member (Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare)

Measures against Cardiovascular Diseases, Promotion Council Member (Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare)

Promotion of Measures against Kidney Disease and Diabetes, Committee Member (Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare)

National Health and Nutrition Survey, Committee Member (Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare)

Dietary Reference Intakes for Japanese (2025), Committee Member (Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare)