Specialty

Epidemiology, Health Service Research, Healthcare Quality Indicators, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Healthy Aging, Global Health

Works

Researchmap

   https://researchmap.jp/t_kodama

Research reports

1 FY2023-2024. Health and Labor Sciences Research Grant (Research Project on Administrative Policies to Promote Solutions to Global Health Issues) Research for development and implementation of Quality Indicators of Long-Term Care Service for the older in the ASEAN Region. Primary Investigator: Tomoko Kodama

2 FY2020-2021. Health and Labor Sciences Research Grant (Research Project on Administrative Policies to Promote Solutions to Global Health Issues) United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3) – Research on the evaluation of Japan’s achievement in health-related indicators. Primary Investigator: Tomoko Kodama

3 FY2019-2020. Health and Labour Science Research Grants-in-Aid for Statistical Information General Research Project. Research on the development of algorithms from patient surveys and NDB data for OECD health care quality indicators. Primary Investigator: Genta Kato

Original papers

1 Kudo S, Kodama T, Sasaki Y. Social determinants of older adult suicide: an ecological study using data of Japanese secondary medical areas. BMC Public Health. 2026 Jun 20. doi: 10.1186/s12889-026-28241-z. (in press)

2 Tanikake C, Suzuki J, Sugii T, Tachibana T, Hashimoto Y, Kodama T. Support provided for persons with disabilities and patients with intractable diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic. Japanese Journal of Public Health. 2024；72(4):303-314. (Japanese)

3 Kodama T, Ida Y, Oshima K, Miura H. Are Public Oral Care Services Evenly Distributed? Nation-Wide Assessment of the Provision of Oral Care in Japan Using the National Database of Health Insurance Claims. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Oct 15;18(20):10850.

4 Osawa E, Kodama T. Regional socio-environmental characteristics associated with inadequate prenatal care during pregnancy: an ecological study of 47 prefectures in Japan. BMC pregnancy and childbirth. 2021;21(1):619.

5 Kodama T, Ida Y, Miura H. A Nationwide Survey on Working Hours and Working Environment among Hospital Dentists in Japan. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(23), 9048.

Reviews

1 Kodama T, Yukawa K, Watarai M. The current state and challenges of comprehensive sexuality education in Japan. J Natl Inst Public Health. 2026;75(1):66-76. doi: 10.20683/jniph.75.1_66.

2 Kodama T. Otaga M. Global trends in the assessment of quality of long-term care for older people. 2024;73(3):190-200．(Japanese)

3 Kodama T, Osawa E, Fukushima F. Current public healthcare system for improving mothers and children’s health and well-being in Japan. J Natl Inst Public Health. 2023;72(1):14-21.

4 Suto M, Sugiyama T, Imai K, Furuno T, Hosozawa M, Kodama T, et al. Studies of health insurance claims data in Japan: A scoping review. JMA J. 2023;6(3):233-245.　

5 Kodama T, Miura H, Yokoyama T. Sustainable development goals for non-communicable diseases in Japan: Current issues and challenges. J Natl. Inst. Public Health. 2022;71(1):45-54.

6 Kodama T. Human resources of health for universal health coverage in Japan: in the era of COVID-19. J Natl. Inst. Public Health, 2021;70 (1)13-21.

Others

1 Kodama T,et al. Developing human resources on HIV/AIDS in public health and community health toward sustainable system〈Commentary〉J Natl. Inst. Public Health, 2023;72 (2)128-133. (Japanese)

Books

1 Kawashima (Kodama) Tomoko, Mizushima Hiroshi. International comparison of measures for intractable diseases. All you need to know about medical care for neurological intractable diseases. (Subete-ga wakaru Nanbho iryou). Nakayama Shoten, June 2015. p58-64. ISBN: 9784521734477 (Japanese)

2 Kodama, T. and Okamoto, E. (translators). OECD (ed.). International Indicators of Quality of Health Care 2 -Report of the OECD Project on Quality Indicators of Health Care-. Tokyo. Akashi Shoten 2011. ISBN 9784750324739. (Japanese)

Conference presentations

1 Kodama T． Japan Case Study: Communication Platform for Health Promotion and Prevention(P&P) for older people． PMAC 2025 Side Meeting: SMB107．Leveraging Technological Innovation for Health Promotion and Disease prevention: Insights from Asia-Pacific, 2025.1.28. Bangkok.

2 Kodama T，Sasaki Y．Development of global indicators for Quality Long-term Care for the older in ASEAN countries． J Epidemiol. 2024;31(suppl):141.

3 Kodama T, Samuel Agyemang Boateng, Elizabeth Mensah, Ben T Boakye, Watahiki N, Miura H. The factors for better access to essential health services among pregnant women．October 2024; Sapporo, Abstracts of the 83th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Public Health, p. 642.

Others (awards, etc.)

・ Board Certified Supervisory Physician for Public Health and Social Medicine, Certified Senior Epidemiologist

・ Board-certified neurologist, Japanese Society of Neurology

・ Best Presentation Award at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Public Health, October 2007

・ Best Presentation Award, 31st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Women’s Medicine, November, 2016.