Hideo Yasunaga

Biographic Data

ID5464192
NAMEHideo Yasunaga
GIVEN NAMESHideo
FAMILY NAMEYasunaga
SIGNATUREYASUNAGA H
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Tokyo
ORCID0000-0002-6017-469X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Association between socioeconomic disadvantage and low-value care in acute care hospitals in Japan

    Open AccessSo Sato, Hideo Yasunaga et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy2026

    BACKGROUND: Low-value care offers little clinical benefit and contributes to inefficient healthcare utilization. Although socioeconomic disparities in healthcare access are well documented, data on low-value care among disadvantaged inpatients remain limited. OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between neighborhood-level socioeconomic status (SES) and the proportion of low-value care services in Japanese inpatient settings using the area depriv…

  • Association of duration and timing of physicians’ early-career training with subsequent settlement in medically underserved areas in Japan

    Open AccessSo Sato, Akira Okada et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

  • Epidemiology of severe childhood asthma in Japan

    Open AccessYuya Kimura, Mary Wroth et al.ARTICLEAllergy2024

    71 p. Transcribed into ASCII format, with an introduction, notes, and bibliography, by R.S. Bear and Micah Bear for the University of Oregon, December, 1992. It was converted to HTML format by R.S. Bear in April of 1996. The text for this edition follows that of the printed Mariott and Grismand printing of 1621, as found in the copy in the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

  • Increase in avoidable hospital admissions after the Great East Japan Earthquake

    Yusuke Sasabuchi, Hiroki Matsui et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2017References: 26

    BACKGROUND: The Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear disaster on 11 March 2011 had a short-term influence on the increase in emergency department visits and hospital admissions due to various diseases. However, it remains unclear whether the earthquake and tsunami disaster affected the long-term health conditions of people in the affected areas. METHODS: Using a national inpatient database in Japan, we investigated peopl…

  • Factors associated with hospitalization for seasonal influenza in a Japanese nonelderly cohort

    Open AccessSachiko Ono, Yosuke Ono et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    Our findings suggest that younger age and several comorbidities are associated with higher probability of hospitalization for influenza

  • Projected future distribution of dentists in Japan

    Open AccessMiho Ishimaru, Sachiko Ono et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2016

    Objectives Appropriate health policies for the supply of dentists have been an ongoing issue in many developed countries. The purpose of this study was to estimate the future distribution of dentists with different working statuses in Japan and to discuss policy implications about the supply of dentists in any country. Methods This was a retrospective cohort study using data from the National Survey of Physicians, Dentists and Pharmacists for 197…

  • The Association of Hospital Volume With Mortality and Costs of Care for Stroke in Japan

    Yusuke Tsugawa, Hiraku Kumamaru et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2013References: 8

    BACKGROUND: The association between hospital volume and patient outcomes remains unclear for stroke. Little is known about whether these relationships differ by stroke subtypes. OBJECTIVES: To examine the association of hospital volume with in-hospital mortality and costs of care for stroke. RESEARCH DESIGN: Secondary data analysis of national hospital database. SUBJECTS: A total of 66,406 patients admitted between July 1 and December 31, 2010 wi…