Specialty

Social medicine, Environmental health

Works

Original papers

1 Nguyen HTL, Tran XMT, Nakamura K, Seino K, Tashiro Y, Miyashita A, Igarashi-Yokoi T, Vo VT, Ohno-Matsui K. Impact of spectacle use on academic performance among Vietnamese adolescents with reduced visual acuity and myopia: A school-based study. PLoS One 2025;20(5)

2 Tran XMT, Nguyen HTL, Tran TV, Seino K, Ohno-Matsui K, Igarashi-Yokoi T, Vo TV, Nakamura K. Factors protecting against progression of myopia in school students exposed to societal change in Vietnam: a 3-year cohort study. BMJ Open;15(1):e085853.

Miyashita A, Nakamura K, Kibusi SM, Meshi EB, Bendera A, Sato H, Al-Sobaihi S, Tashiro Y, Ramaiya KL, Sunguya BF, Seino K. Health insurance in rural Tanzania promotes self-care for among patients with non-communicable diseases via their disease management behaviours. Int Health. 2025 May 1;17(3):342-350.

4 Seino K, Nakamura K, Alemi S. Social interactions and heat stress mitigation among elderly people in a healthy city. Lancet Planet Health. 2024;8:S12.

5 Moncatar TRT, Vo MTH, Siongco KLL, Han TDT, Seino K, Gomez AVD, Canila CC, Javier RS, Vo TV, Tashiro Y, Lorenzo FME, Nakamura K. Gaps and opportunities in addressing the needs of older adults in the Philippines and Vietnam: a qualitative exploration of health and social workers’ experiences in urban care settings. Front Public Health. 2024;12:1269116.

6 Latorre AAE, Nakamura K, Seino K, Hasegawa T. Vector Autoregression for Forecasting the Number of COVID-19 Cases and Analyzing Behavioral Indicators in the Philippines: Ecologic Time-Trend Study JMIR Form Res. 2023;7:e46357.

7 Alemi S, Nakamura K, Arab AS, Mashal MO, Tashiro Y, Seino K, Hemat S. Prevalence, determinants, and association of overweight/obesity with non-communicable disease-related biomedical indicators: A cross-sectional study in schoolteachers in Kabul, Afghanistan. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2023;3(3):e0001676.

Reviews

1 Shimonosono K, Takeda A, Seino K, Shimazaki D, Tomio J. J Public health policies for heat health in major countries: overview of G20 member countries. Natl Inst Public Health 2025;74(2):157-167．