Kenichi Shibuya

Biographic Data

ID107718
NAMEKenichi Shibuya
GIVEN NAMESKenichi
FAMILY NAMEShibuya
SIGNATURESHIBUYA K
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Tokyo
ORCID0000-0003-2528-7530
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS43
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT43
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • A cross-sectional study on mental health and quality of life among LGBTQ+ individuals in Japan

    Aomi Katagiri, Yasuharu Tokuda et al.ARTICLEJournal of Gay & Lesbian Mental…2025

    Introduction: Studies from Western countries claim LGBTQ+ people face mental health burdens. It remains unclear in Japan. This study aimed to examine mental health challenges among LGBTQ+ individuals in Japan. Methods: JACSIS (Japan COVID-19 and Society Internet Survey) 2022 participants were categorized in cisgender-heterosexual, gay-identifying, lesbian-identifying, bisexual-identifying, questioning, transgender and nonbinary. Associations betw…

  • Modelling of salt intake reduction by incorporation of umami substances into Japanese foods

    Open AccessShiori Tanaka, Daisuke Yoneoka et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Our study provides essential information on the potential salt reduction with umami substances. The universal incorporation of umami substances into food items would enable the Japanese to achieve the national dietary goal. However, the reduced salt intake level still falls short of the global dietary recommendation

  • Salt intake reduction using umami substance-incorporated food

    Open AccessShuhei Nomura, Shiori Tanaka et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2023

    Objective: Excessive salt intake raises blood pressure and increases the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCD), such as CVD, chronic kidney disease and stomach cancer. Reducing the Na content of food is an important public health measure to control the NCD. This study quantifies the amount of salt reduced by using umami substances, i.e. glutamate, inosinate and guanylate, for adults in the USA. Design: The secondary data analysis was performed …

  • Public health risks of humanitarian crises in Mozambique

    Open AccessFloriano Amimo, Anthony Magit et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2021

    Mozambique has been experiencing various humanitarian crises with important public health implications over the last years. These crises compound underlying disease burden dominated by human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), neonatal disorders, tuberculosis, and malaria [1]. Despite important health gains over the last two decades, the number of deaths and disability-adjusted life-years due to HI…

  • Tracking sectoral allocation of official development assistance

    Open AccessShuhei Nomura, Haruka Sakamoto et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    Background: Official development assistance (ODA) is one of the most important means for donor countries to foster diplomatic relations with low- and middle-income countries and contribute to the welfare of the international community.Objective: This study estimated the sectoral allocation of gross disbursements of ODA of the 29 Development Assistance Committee (DAC) member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (…

  • Tracking Development Assistance for Health

    Open AccessShuhei Nomura, Haruka Sakamoto et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Development assistance for health (DAH) is an important part of financing healthcare in low- and middle-income countries. We estimated the gross disbursement of DAH of the 29 Development Assistance Committee (DAC) member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for 2011-2019; and clarified its flows, including aid type, channel, target region, and target health focus area. Data from the OECD iLibrary were use…

  • Equity and determinants in universal health coverage indicators in Iraq, 2000–2030

    Open AccessHiromi Taniguchi, Md Mizanur Rahman et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2021

    To reduce inequality in Iraq, urgent health-system reform is needed, with consideration for vulnerable households having female-heads, less educated mothers, and more children and/or elderly people. Considering varying inequity between and within governorates in Iraq, reconstruction of primary healthcare across the country and cross-sectoral targeted interventions for women should be prioritised

  • Projections of disability-adjusted life years for major diseases due to a change in vegetable intake in 2017–2040 in Japan

    Open AccessShiori Tanaka, Daisuke Yoneoka et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Our analysis indicates that increased vegetable consumption would have a significant reduction in the burdens of CVDs, cancer and DKDs in Japan. By estimating the disease burden attributable to low vegetable intake under different scenarios of future vegetable consumption, our study can inform the design of targeted interventions for public health challenges

  • Japan’s development cooperation for health in Vietnam

    Open AccessSangnim Lee, Aya Ishizuka et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Background Japan strives to strengthen its development cooperation by mobilizing various resources to assist partner countries advance on Universal Health Coverage by 2030. However, the involvement and roles of various actors for health are not clear. This study is the first to map Japan’s publicly funded projects by both Official Development Assistance (ODA) and other non-ODA public funds, and to describe the intervention areas. Further, the pol…

  • Prediction of disability-adjusted life years for diseases due to low fruit intake in 2017–2040 in Japan

    Open AccessDaisuke Yoneoka, Shuhei Nomura et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2021

    Objective: The current study aimed to predict disability-adjusted life years (DALY) rate in Japan through 2040 with plausible future scenarios of fruit intake for neoplasms, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and diabetes and kidney diseases (DKD). Design: Data from National Health and Nutrition Surveys and the Global Burden of Diseases study in 2017 were used. We developed an autoregressive integrated moving average model with four future scenarios. …

  • Lessons learnt from easing Covid-19 restrictions

    Open AccessEmeline Han, Melisa Mei Jin Tan et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

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

    Open AccessHelena Legido-Quigley, Nima Asgari‐Jirhandeh et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

  • Plasmodium falciparum resistance to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in Africa

    Open AccessFloriano Amimo, Bernd Lambert et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    INTRODUCTION: resistance to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) across Africa, from 2000 to 2020. METHODS: We assembled molecular, clinical and endemicity data covering malaria-endemic African countries up to December 2018. Subsequently, we reconstructed georeferenced patient data, using pfdhps540E and pfdhps581G to measure mid-level and high-level SP resistance. Gaussian process regression was applied to model spatiotemporal standardised prevalence. …

  • Tracking Japan’s development assistance for health, 2012–2016

    Open AccessShuhei Nomura, Haruka Sakamoto et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2020

    BACKGROUND: Development assistance for health (DAH) is one of the most important means for Japan to promote diplomacy with developing countries and contribute to the international community. This study, for the first time, estimated the gross disbursement of Japan's DAH from 2012 to 2016 and clarified its flows, including source, aid type, channel, target region, and target health focus area. METHODS: Data on Japan Tracker, the first data platfor…

  • Forecasting disability-adjusted life years for chronic diseases

    Open AccessShuhei Nomura, Daisuke Yoneoka et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    The gap between scenarios provides some quantification of the range of policy impacts on future trajectories of salt intake. Even though we do not yet know the policy mix used to achieve these scenarios, the result that there can be differences between scenarios means that policies today can have a significant impact on the future DALYs

  • Inequalities and risk factors analysis in prevalence and management of hypertension in India and Nepal

    Open AccessSantosh Kumar Rauniyar, Md Mizanur Rahman et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Wealth- and education-based inequalities in prevalence and management of hypertension were high among different socio-economic groups at national and sub-national levels. Tailored strategies are required to effectively manage hypertension in different regions by considering socio-economic and demographic factors

  • Trends and projections of universal health coverage indicators in Iraq, 2000–2030

    Open AccessHiromi Taniguchi, Md Mizanur Rahman et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2020

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

    Open AccessHaruka Sakamoto, Sangnim Lee et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    This study provides important insight into the current status of global efforts toward end TB epidemic. The outcomes from the UN high-level meeting on TB need to be closely monitored will be crucial for the progress towards this goal

  • Trends in heterosexual inexperience among young adults in Japan

    Open AccessCyrus Ghaznavi, Haruka Sakamoto et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    The proportion of young Japanese adults with no experience of heterosexual intercourse had increased in the past two decades. Among adults in their thirties, around one in ten had no heterosexual experience. Unemployment, temporary/part-time employment and low income were associated with heterosexual inexperience among men. Further research is needed on the factors contributing to and the potential public health and demographic implications of th…

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

    Open AccessHaruka Sakamoto, Satoshi Ezoe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2018

  • 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

    Christina Fitzmaurice, Global Burden of Disease Cancer Collaboration et al.ARTICLEJAMA Oncology2017

    IMPORTANCE: Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide. Current estimates on the burden of cancer are needed for cancer control planning. OBJECTIVE: To estimate mortality, incidence, years lived with disability (YLDs), years of life lost (YLLs), and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 32 cancers in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2015. EVIDENCE REVIEW: Cancer mortality was estimated using vital registration system dat…

  • Area-level socioeconomic deprivation and mortality differentials in Thailand

    Open AccessSuchunya Aungkulanon, Viroj Tangcharoensathien et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2017

    Socially deprived areas have an excess of overall and cause specific deaths. Populations living in more affluent areas, despite low general mortality, still have many preventable deaths such as colorectal cancer. These findings warrant future epidemiological studies investigating various causes of excessive deaths in non-deprived areas and implementation of policies to reduce the mortality gap between rich and poor areas

  • Excess mortality due to indirect health effects of the 2011 triple disaster in Fukushima, Japan

    Tomohiro Morita, Shuhei Nomura et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2017Cited by: 2References: 38

    BACKGROUND: Evidence on the indirect health impacts of disasters is limited. We assessed the excess mortality risk associated with the indirect health impacts of the 2011 triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster) in Fukushima, Japan. METHODS: The mortality rates in Soma and Minamisoma cities in Fukushima from 2006 to 2015 were calculated using vital statistics and resident registrations. We investigated the excess mortality risk,…

  • Post universal health coverage trend and geographical inequalities of mortality in Thailand

    Open AccessSuchunya Aungkulanon, Viroj Tangcharoensathien et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2016

    A decline in the adult mortality inequality across almost all regions of Thailand followed universal health coverage. Inequalities in child mortality rates and among residents of Greater Bangkok need further exploration

  • Inequality and inequity in healthcare utilization in urban Nepal

    Open AccessEiko Saito, Gilmour et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2016Cited by: 2References: 23

    Inequality in access to quality healthcare is a major health policy challenge in many low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to identify the major sources of inequity in healthcare utilization using a population-based household survey from urban Nepal. A cross-sectional survey was conducted covering 9177 individuals residing in 1997 households in five municipalities of Kathmandu valley between 2011 and 2012. The concentration index wa…