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List of works by Kenji Shibuya

50 years of pursuing a healthy society in Japan.

scientific article published on 30 August 2011

A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

scientific article published in December 2012

Achieving MDG 4 in sub-Saharan Africa: what has contributed to the accelerated child mortality decline in Ghana?

scientific article

Acute intake of radionuclides immediately after the incident as the main contributor of the internal radiation exposure after Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

scientific article published on December 2013

Adult mortality attributable to preventable risk factors for non-communicable diseases and injuries in Japan: a comparative risk assessment

scientific article

Alcohol consumption and psychological distress in adolescents: a multi-country study.

scientific article

An assessment of the characteristics and quality of diagnostic accuracy studies for positron emission tomography conducted in Japan: a systematic review.

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Are Japanese randomized controlled trials up to the task? A systematic review.

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Are high-performing health systems resilient against the COVID-19 epidemic?

scientific article published on 06 March 2020

Assessing the quality of cause of death data in six high-income countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan and Switzerland

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

Assessment of medium-term cardiovascular disease risk after Japan's 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident: a retrospective analysis.

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Assessment of the risk of medium-term internal contamination in Minamisoma City, Fukushima, Japan, after the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear accident

scientific article

Attributable causes of cancer in Japan in 2005--systematic assessment to estimate current burden of cancer attributable to known preventable risk factors in Japan

scientific article published on 02 November 2011

Behavioral interventions to reduce the transmission of HIV infection among sex workers and their clients in low- and middle-income countries

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Burden of disease in Japan: using national and subnational data to inform local health policy.

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Can we achieve Millennium Development Goal 4? New analysis of country trends and forecasts of under-5 mortality to 2015.

scientific article

Cash-transfer programmes in developing countries.

scientific article published in April 2013

Catastrophic household expenditure on health in Nepal: a cross-sectional survey.

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Causes and risk factors for singleton stillbirth in Japan: Analysis of a nationwide perinatal database, 2013-2014.

scientific article published on 7 March 2018

Challenges and opportunities for eliminating tuberculosis - leveraging political momentum of the UN high-level meeting on tuberculosis

scientific article published on 16 January 2019

Change in mortality and years of life lost attributable to tobacco in Japan, 1985 and 1995.

scientific article published in January 1999

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: current burden and future projections.

scientific article published on February 2006

Civil registration as a means to promote human security

scientific article published on 10 May 2015

Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

scientific article

Conditional cash transfer: a magic bullet for health?

scientific article published in March 2008

Coping strategies and cancer incidence and mortality: The Japan Public Health Center-based prospective study

scientific article published on 22 December 2015

Coping strategies and risk of cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality: the Japan Public Health Center-based prospective Study

scientific article published on 7 January 2016

Cost and economic burden of illness over 15 years in Nepal: A comparative analysis.

scientific article published on 4 April 2018

Cost-effectiveness analysis of a national neonatal hearing screening program in China: conditions for the scale-up.

scientific article

Cross-boundary cancer studies at the University of Tokyo: The globalization of healthcare

scientific article published in February 2014

Current Measures on Radioactive Contamination in Japan: A Policy Situation Analysis.

scientific article

Deaths from heart failure: using coarsened exact matching to correct cause-of-death statistics.

scientific article

Decide monitoring strategies before setting targets.

scientific article published in June 2007

Designing verbal autopsy studies.

scientific article

Determinants of reduced child stunting in Cambodia: analysis of pooled data from three demographic and health surveys.

scientific article

Development of a disaster cardiovascular prevention network

scientific article published on August 30, 2011

Dietary consumption of antioxidant vitamins and subsequent lung cancer risk: The Japan Public Health Center-based prospective study

scientific article

Dietary fiber intake and risk of breast cancer defined by estrogen and progesterone receptor status: the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study.

scientific article published on 23 March 2017

Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

scientific article (publication date: 15 December 2012)

Diseases Burden of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Attributable to Ground-Level Ozone in Thailand: Estimates Based on Surface Monitoring Measurements Data

scientific article

Does Japan's national nutrient-based dietary guideline improve lifestyle-related disease outcomes? A retrospective observational cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

Duration of maternally derived antibody against measles: A seroepidemiological study of infants aged under 8 months in Qinghai, China

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Economic burden from smoking-related diseases in Thailand.

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Effect of body-mass index on the risk of gastric cancer: A population-based cohort study in A Japanese population

scientific article published on 22 October 2019

Effectiveness of community-based health services by nurse practitioners: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article

Epidemics and related cultural factors for Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Gabon

scientific article published on October 2001

Estimates of global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and mortality of HIV, 1980-2015: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

scientific article

Estimating child mortality due to diarrhoea in developing countries

scientific article published on September 2008

Estimating the burden of foodborne diseases in Japan

scientific article

Excess mortality due to indirect health effects of the 2011 triple disaster in Fukushima, Japan: a retrospective observational study.

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Female reproductive factors and risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality among women: The Japan Public Health Center–based Prospective Study (JPHC study)

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Fish, n - 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and n - 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids intake and breast cancer risk: The Japan Public Health Center-based prospective study.

scientific article published on 2 July 2015

GBD 2010: a multi-investigator collaboration for global comparative descriptive epidemiology

scientific article published in December 2012

GBD 2010: design, definitions, and metrics

scientific article

Geographic information system (GIS) maps and malaria control monitoring: intervention coverage and health outcome in distal villages of Khammouane province, Laos.

scientific article published on 22 September 2009

Global Burden of Disease 2005: call for collaborators

scientific article published in The Lancet

Global and regional estimates of cancer mortality and incidence by site: I. Application of regional cancer survival model to estimate cancer mortality distribution by site

scientific article

Global and regional estimates of cancer mortality and incidence by site: II. Results for the global burden of disease 2000

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Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

journal article published in 2012

Global trends and projections for tobacco use, 1990-2025: an analysis of smoking indicators from the WHO Comprehensive Information Systems for Tobacco Control

scientific article published on March 2015

Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-years for 32 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2015: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study

scientific article published on 03 December 2016

Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

scientific article published in The Lancet

Global, regional, and national burden of stroke, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

article by Catherine Owens Johnson et al published March 2019 in Lancet Neurology

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

scientific article

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Dise

scientific article published in The Lancet

Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition

journal article published in 2015

Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

scientific article published on 22 July 2014

Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

scientific article published in The Lancet

Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

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Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

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Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

scientific article (publication date: 30 August 2014)

Health Insurance Coverage and Hypertension Control in China: Results from the China Health and Nutrition Survey.

scientific article

Health statistics: time to get serious.

scientific article published in October 2005

Health-Related Financial Catastrophe, Inequality and Chronic Illness in Bangladesh

scientific article published on February 25, 2013

Improving population health measurement in national household surveys: a simulation study of the sample design of the comprehensive survey of living conditions of the people on health and welfare in Japan.

scientific article published on 13 August 2011

Individual income, income distribution, and self rated health in Japan: cross sectional analysis of nationally representative sample

scientific article published on January 5, 2002

Inequality and inequity in healthcare utilization in urban Nepal: a cross-sectional observational study

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Inequality in diabetes-related hospital admissions in England by socioeconomic deprivation and ethnicity: facility-based cross-sectional analysis.

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Introducing HPV vaccine and scaling up screening procedures to prevent deaths from cervical cancer in Japan: a cost-effectiveness analysis.

scientific article published on 28 July 2011

Japan's contribution to making global health architecture a top political agenda by leveraging the G7 presidency

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Japan's vision for health care in 2035.

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Keeping count: births, deaths, and causes of death

scientific article published on 29 October 2007

Lessons learnt from easing COVID-19 restrictions: an analysis of countries and regions in Asia Pacific and Europe

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Limited alignment of publicly competitive disease funding with disease burden in Japan

scientific article published on 10 February 2020

Living in Contaminated Radioactive Areas Is Not an Acute Risk Factor for Noncommunicable Disease Development: A Retrospective Observational Study

scientific article published on 9 September 2015

Macrosomia in 23 developing countries: an analysis of a multicountry, facility-based, cross-sectional survey

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Malaria risk: estimating clinical episodes of malaria.

scientific article published on September 2005

Maternal and perinatal outcomes among nulliparous adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: a multi-country study.

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Maternal anemia and risk of adverse birth and health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Maternal body mass index and risk of birth and maternal health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Measles elimination: lack of progress in the Western Pacific Region

scientific article published on 01 March 2009

Measurement of internal radiation exposure among decontamination workers in villages near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

scientific article

Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

scientific article published in The Lancet

Misconduct: Japan to learn from biomedical cases

scientific article published in August 2014

Mortality risk amongst nursing home residents evacuated after the Fukushima nuclear accident: a retrospective cohort study.

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Motorcycle helmet use to reduce road traffic deaths in Thailand

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Needlestick and sharps injuries among health care workers at public tertiary hospitals in an urban community in Mongolia

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Neighborhood deprivation and risk of cancer incidence, mortality and survival: results from a population-based cohort study in Japan

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No cry at birth: global estimates of intrapartum stillbirths and intrapartum-related neonatal deaths

scientific article published on 17 June 2005

No more excuses: viral hepatitis can be eliminated

scientific article published on April 2016

Out-of-pocket medical expenses for inpatient care among beneficiaries of the National Health Insurance Program in the Philippines.

scientific article published on 09 October 2012

Population health and regional variations of disease burden in Japan, 1990-2015: a systematic subnational analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015.

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Prevalence and control of hypertension in Bangladesh

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Progress Toward Universal Health Coverage: A Comparative Analysis in 5 South Asian Countries.

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Projecting HIV transmission in Japan

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Regression analysis of trends in mortality from hepatocellular carcinoma in Japan, 1972-2001.

scientific article published on 23 November 2004

Research misconduct and scientific integrity: a call for a global forum

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Rethinking the global tracking system on development assistance to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health

scientific article published in July 2015

Rice, bread, noodle and cereal intake and colorectal cancer in Japanese men and women: the Japan Public Health Center-based prospective Study (JPHC Study).

scientific article published on 02 January 2014

Risk factors and regional variations of malnutrition among children under 5 in Myanmar: cross-sectional analyses at national and subnational levels

scientific article published on 08 September 2019

Self-reported illness and household strategies for coping with health-care payments in Bangladesh

scientific article published on 18 April 2013

Setting international standards for verbal autopsy

scientific article published in August 2007

Should data from demographic surveillance systems be made more widely available to researchers?

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Simple steps to equity in child survival.

scientific article published on 18 December 2013

Social networks and mental health in post-conflict Mitrovica, Kosova

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Statistical modeling and projections of lung cancer mortality in 4 industrialized countries.

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Structural and community-level interventions for increasing condom use to prevent the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections

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The 7th Asia Cancer Forum: From the Perspective of Human Security, How Can We Collaborate as Asians in Order to Place Cancer on the Global Health Agenda? How Can We Fill in the Gaps that Exist Among Us?

scientific article published on April 28, 2011

The Eighth Asia Cancer Forum: Seeking to Advance the Outcomes of the UN Summit: 'Global Health as the Key to a New Paradigm in Cancer Research'

scientific article published on October 24, 2012

The G7 presidency and universal health coverage, Japan's contribution.

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

The Global Burden of Cancer 2013

scientific article published in July 2015

The immediate physical and mental health crisis in residents proximal to the evacuation zone after Japan's nuclear disaster: an observational pilot study.

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The importance of alcoholic beverage type for suicide in Japan: A time‐series analysis, 1963–2007

scientific article published on March 31, 2011

Time to reconsider thyroid cancer screening in Fukushima.

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Tracking China's health reform.

scientific article published in March 2010

Trends and projections of universal health coverage indicators in Ghana, 1995-2030: A national and subnational study

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Trends in cause specific mortality across occupations in Japanese men of working age during period of economic stagnation, 1980-2005: retrospective cohort study

scientific article published on 6 March 2012

Trends in heterosexual inexperience among young adults in Japan: analysis of national surveys, 1987-2015

scientific article published on 08 April 2019

Trends in perinatal mortality and its risk factors in Japan: Analysis of vital registration data, 1979-2010.

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Trends in, and projections of, indicators of universal health coverage in Bangladesh, 1995-2030: a Bayesian analysis of population-based household data.

scientific article published in January 2018

UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

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Unpaid doctors in Japanese university hospitals

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

Vaccination for whom? Time to reinvigorate Japanese vaccine policy.

scientific article published in November 2012

Vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis in Japan

scientific article published on 01 February 2012

Verbal autopsy: advancing science, facilitating application.

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Voice from Fukushima: Responsibility of Epidemiologists to Avoid Irrational Stigmatization of Children in Fukushima

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

What can Japan learn from tobacco control in the UK?

scientific article published in September 2017

What do we really know about adult mortality worldwide?

scientific article published in The Lancet

What has made the population of Japan healthy?

scientific article (publication date: 17 September 2011)

Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

scholarly article

[Recent trends in mortality, years of life lost (YLLs), and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) attributable to tobacco in Japan]

scientific article published on 01 July 2001