Masatoshi Matsumoto

Datos Biográficos

ID3581228
NOMBREMasatoshi Matsumoto
NOMBRESMasatoshi
APELLIDOMatsumoto
FIRMAMATSUMOTO M
AFILIACIONESHiroshima University
ORCID0000-0002-8341-9303
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS12
TOTAL DE CITAS8
TOTAL COMO AUTOR12
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2007
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H2

  • Ethical issues arising from the government allocation of physicians to rural areas

    Masatoshi Matsumoto, Tatsuki AikyoARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2024

    The geographically inequitable distribution of physicians has long posed a serious social problem in Japan. The government tackled this problem by establishing and managing Jichi Medical University (JMU) and regional quotas (RQs) for medical schools. JMU/RQs recruit local students who hope to work as physicians in rural areas, educate them for 6 years without tuition (JMU) or with scholarship (RQs), and after graduation, assign them to their home…

  • Effects of 2018 Japan floods on healthcare costs and service utilization in Japan

    Open AccessShuhei Yoshida, Saori Kashima et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Victims of the 2018 Japan Floods had higher medical costs and used more healthcare services than non-victims. In addition, the risk of higher medical costs was highest at the end of the observation period. It is necessary to estimate the increase in healthcare costs according to the disaster scale and plan for appropriate post-disaster healthcare service delivery

  • Effects of the 2018 Japan Floods on long-term care insurance costs in Japan

    Open AccessShuhei Yoshida, Saori Kashima et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    The 2018 Japan Floods caused an increase in LTCI costs and the utilization of short-stay and facility services, and a decrease in utilization of home-based services

  • The Vanguard of Community-based Integrated Care in Japan

    Open AccessYu Hatano, Masatoshi Matsumoto et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2017Citada por: 2

    Mitsugi is in the vanguard of Japan's community-based integrated care system. The case showed the community-based integrated care system can diffuse from rural to urban areas

  • The first Japanese trial of the community-based integrated care system in a rural area

    Open AccessYu Hatano, Masatoshi Matsumoto et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2016

    Introduction: Japan has the highest elderly rate of population in the world. In 2012, the government implemented the community-based integrated care system, which integrates various health-related resources within the community through cooperation among formal, long-term care facilities, welfare and medical care specialists, and informal voluntary activities by the residents. The system was first born in a rural town in Hiroshima.Description of t…

  • Japanese universal health coverage

    Open AccessNaoki Ikegami, Byung-Kwang Yoo et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2011

  • Definition of “Rural” Determines the Placement Outcomes of a Rural Medical Education Program

    Open AccessMasatoshi Matsumoto, Kazuo Inoue et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health2010

    PURPOSE: To show the impact of changing the definition of what is "rural" on the outcomes of a rural medical education program. METHODS: A cross-sectional sample of 643 graduates under obligatory rural service and 1,699 graduates after serving their obligation, all from Jichi Medical University (JMU), a binding rural education program in Japan, were used as the data source. Communities were divided into decile groups according to population densi…

  • Policy implications of a financial incentive programme to retain a physician workforce in underserved Japanese rural areas

    Open AccessMasatoshi Matsumoto, Kazuo Inoue et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2010Citada por: 3Referencias: 15

  • Geographic distribution of primary care physicians in Japan and Britain

    Open AccessMasatoshi Matsumoto, Kazuo Inoue et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2009Citada por: 3Referencias: 1

  • A Contract‐Based Training System for Rural Physicians

    Open AccessMasatoshi Matsumoto, Kazuo Inoue et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health2008

    Context: The number of studies on long‐term effects of rural medical education programs is limited. Personal factors that are associated with long‐term retention of physicians in rural areas are scarcely known. Purpose: The authors studied the outcomes of Jichi Medical University (JMU), whose mission is to produce rural doctors, and analyzed the characteristics of its graduates who engaged in rural practice even after their 9‐year obligation of r…

  • Evaluation of a Medical School for Rural Doctors

    Open AccessKazuo Inoue, Masatoshi Matsumoto et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health2007

    Context: Jichi Medical School (JMS) is the first and only medical school in Japan that was founded exclusively to graduate/prepare rural doctors. Purpose: To evaluate the long‐term effect of JMS on the nationwide distribution of doctors. Methods: Data from the Japanese population census of 1995 and from the Japanese physician census of 1994 were combined for use in this study. We extracted the JMS graduates from the physician census and compared …

  • Predictors of Institutionalization in Elderly People Living at Home

    Open AccessMasatoshi Matsumoto, Kazuo InoueARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…2007Referencias: 29