Specialty

Health Service Research, Healthcare Quality Indicators, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Healthy Aging, Women’s Health, Rare & Intractable Diseases, Global Health

Works

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 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)

2 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.

3 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.

4 Oshima K, Kodama T, Ida Y, Miura H. Gender Differences in Work Status during Early Career of Dentists: An Analysis of National Survey Cohort Data of 10 Years in Japan. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Feb 27;18(5):2335.

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

2 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.

3 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.　

4 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.

5 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.