Shinji Nakahara

Biographic Data

ID4329379
NAMEShinji Nakahara
GIVEN NAMESShinji
FAMILY NAMENakahara
SIGNATURENAKAHARA S
AFFILIATIONSKanagawa University of Human Services
ORCID0000-0001-7243-4797
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Japan's Slow Response to Improve Access to Inpatient Care for Covid-19 Patients

    Open AccessShinji Nakahara, Haruhiko Inada et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed various weaknesses in national healthcare systems across the globe. In Japan, this includes the inability to promptly mobilize the resources needed to provide inpatient care in response to the rapidly increasing number of patients. Combined with unclear entry points to healthcare, particularly in emergency cases, this has led to a situation in which access to healthcare is rapidly deter…

  • Effect of annual road safety publicity and enforcement campaign on road fatalities in Japan

    Haruhiko Inada, Jun Tomio et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2022References: 15

    BACKGROUND: In 1948, Japan started a short-term publicity and enforcement campaign for traffic safety nationwide, and since 1952, the campaign has been conducted twice a year for 10 days. We aimed to quantify the short-term effect of the spring sessions of the campaign, which were conducted in different months in different years, on road fatalities in Japan using data from 1949 to 2019. METHODS: We obtained national police data on the monthly num…

  • Area-Wide Traffic-Calming Zone 30 Policy of Japan and Incidence of Road Traffic Injuries Among Cyclists and Pedestrians

    Haruhiko Inada, Jun Tomio et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2020References: 21

    Objectives. To quantify the impact of the “Zone 30” policy introduced in September 2011 on the incidence of cyclist and pedestrian injuries in Japan. Methods. This was an interrupted time-series study. We used the data of cyclist and pedestrian injuries recorded by the Japanese police between 2005 and 2016. We evaluated the monthly number of deaths and serious injuries per person-time on narrow roads (width Results. There were 266 939 deaths and …

  • The impact of transportation alternatives on the decision to cease driving by older adults in Japan

    Open AccessMasao Ichikawa, Shinji Nakahara et al.ARTICLETransportation2016

  • Exploring referral systems for injured patients in low-income countries

    Open AccessShinji Nakahara, Sanjay Saint et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2010Cited by: 1References: 49

    Injury is a growing public health concern worldwide. Since severe injuries require urgent treatment, involving smooth, timely patient referral between facilities, strengthening of the referral system would reduce injury mortality. Smooth referral consists of identification of severe cases, organization of transportation, communication between facilities and prompt care at the receiving facility. This study examined these components of referral of…

  • Unsafe Sexual Behaviors among HIV-positive Men in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

    Open AccessKrishna C Poudel, Shinji Nakahara et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2008

  • Availability of childcare support and nutritional status of children of non-working and working mothers in urban Nepal

    Open AccessShinji Nakahara, Krishna C Poudel et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2006

    In many developing countries, poor women have multiple roles, and often their time constraints are so severe that their participation in income-generating activities results in reduced childcare time, which in turn affects child health. Previous studies have tended to investigate how childcare support influences nutrition of children with working mothers' based on comparisons with non-working mothers. However, non-working mothers are not a homoge…

  • Herbal medicine use and quality of life among people living with HIV/Aids in northeastern Thailand

    N Sugimoto, Masao Ichikawa et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2005

    Many people living with HIV/AIDS (PHA) use herbal medicine as one of alternative therapies, where curative options are limited. This study aimed to examine the association between the herbal medicine use and quality of life (QOL) among PHA in northeastern Thailand. Participants were 132 HIV-positive Thai adults who attended the PHA's self-help group meetings from June to July 2002. Health-related QOL scores were measured by self-administered ques…

  • Lowered Tuberculosis Notifications and Deterred Health Care Seeking During the Sars Epidemic in Hong Kong

    Masao Ichikawa, Shinji Nakahara et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2005References: 2

    Chang et al. using National Health Insurance data reported significant reductions in medical service utilization at the peak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in Taiwan. This finding may be supported by other evidence from Hong Kong: lowered tuberculosis notifications. Our assumption is that deterred health care seeking during the epidemic resulted in the lowered detection and thus notification of tuberculosis. To examine t…

  • Relation between increased numbers of safe playing areas and decreased vehicle related child mortality rates in Japan from 1970 to 1985

    Shinji Nakahara, Yasuhide Nakamura et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2004Cited by: 2References: 18

    Objectives: To examine vehicle related mortality trends of children in Japan; and to investigate how environmental modifications such as the installation of public parks and pavements are associated with these trends. Design: Poisson regression was used for trend analysis, and multiple regression modelling was used to investigate the associations between trends in environmental modifications and trends in motor vehicle related child mortality rat…