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Profile

• A male Japanese born in Kyoto, Japan
• PhD (Medical Science, Nagasaki University)
• Professor in Department of Public Health Nursing, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Academic Society

• Japan Association for International Health (JAIH)
• Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine
• Japanese Society of Public Health (Japanese only)
• Japan Epidemiological Association
• GIS Association of Japan

Research

Human babies are born equally as human being. In spite of that, the place of birth strongly influences the posterior life of the babies. The disparity in their growth and health levels are produced by the birth place on the earth. I can not connive this unreasonable disparity, especially from the viewpoint of social justice.

Philosophy of my research is that all my efforts lead people in developing countries to the world without the disparity of health. Hoping the result of my research contributes to reduce the disparity, I work in the field of global health (international health). The objectives of the discipline are to clarify to what extend of the disparity of health is admissible, and how to control the disparity.

Based on the context of medical international cooperation, I do research in spatial epidemiology and health policy and planning, applying the theory, methods, technologies of geographic information science as well as computational statistics and simulation. [ read more... ]

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Selected Publications

• Susumu Tanimura, Masayuki Shima. Quantitative measurements of inequality in geographic accessibility to pediatric care in Oita Prefecture, Japan: Standardization with complete spatial randomness. BMC Health Serv Res. 2011 Jul 7;11(1):163.
• Susumu Tanimura, Tsutomu Mizota. A graphic tool for displaying regional specialization coefficients. Japanese Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 5-11, December 2004.
• Susumu Tanimura, Chusi Kuroiwa, Tsutomu Mizota. Proportional Symbol Mapping in R. Journal of Statistical Software 15(5) 2006

Recent Conference Presentations

• Makiko Martinez, Susumu Tanimura, Yasuko Ishimoto, Ritsuko Nishide, Hiroyo Hatashita. Bibliometrics of disaster preparedness: co-occurrence of keywords. the 36th Western Regional Conference of Japan Association for International Health, March 3, 2018, Nagoya.
• Susumu Tanimura, Yasuko Ishimoto, Ritsuko Nishide, Hiroyo Hatashita. Association between healthy life expectancy and national culture: an ecological study of 61 countries. Gloabl Health joint meeting 2017, Nov. 24-26, 2017, Tokyo.
• Susumu Tanimura, Saiyud Moolphate, Myo Nyein Aung, Yasuko Ishimoto, Ritsuko Nishide, Hiroyo Hatashita. Dissemination capability of research and academic information about SDGs from Thailand and Japan: a bibliometric analysis. he 8th International Public Health Conference and The 1st APAPCH Bangkok Region Conference: Towards Achieving Sustainable Development Goals, May 25-26, 2017, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Susumu Tanimura, Yasuko Ishimoto, Ritsuko Nishide,Hiroyo Hatashita. Factors related to gender gap in health expectancy. the 36th Western Regional Conference of Japan Association for International Health, March 4, 2017, Kobe.

Contact

Department of Public Health Nursing
Mie University Graduate School of Medicine
2-174 Edobashi, Tsu, Mie, 514-8507 JAPAN
☎ +81-59-231-5275
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Links

• Hyogo College of Medicine (Also see Japanese pages for detail)
• Department of Public Health, Hyogo College of Medicine (Japanese only)
• Nagasaki University Institute of Tropical Medicine
• International Health Policy and Planning, School of International Health, the University of Tokyo
• JICA Research Institute

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