Community Social DentistryInternational Oral Health
The field of International Oral Health makes evident the large connection between individual health including oral health and our communities, and aims to work with local guvernments to build a healthy society.
We have carried out research on the influence that the social capital, or bonds to humans and society have on dental health. We have shown socioeconomic status has an impact on the number of remaining teeth in a cohort study. We have also established the number of remaining teeth has associated with the tendency of becoming nursing care-dependent and pneumonia deaths.
To deal with the increasing aging population in both developedand developing countries, we have constructed and started a nationwide introduction of a program combining nutritional guidance improvement of physical function, and oral function to prevent the need for nursing care.
We make proposals necessary for the construction of regional comprehensive care systems that are able to provide medical and nursing care and.
We are working on education of young students in international support for developing countries, as well as analyzing the oral health condition and health inequalities in Japan and deepening our understanding of the dental care system, long term care insurance system for the elderly, and dental public health.
Staff
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Prof. Ken Osaka,
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Associate Prof. Kenji Takeuchi,
Topics of Research
- Association of dental status and society
- Construction of Regional Comprehensive Care through the Combination of Health Care and Nursing
- The Dental Care System and Health Gap
- Construction of a Project for Effective Prevention of the Need for Nursing Care
- Infectious Disease Countermeasures and Risk Management for Convalescent Nursing Care Facilities
- Risk Assessment for Food Products
Recent Publications
- Aida J, Kondo K, Hirai H, Nakade M, Yamamoto T, Hanibuchi T, Osaka K, Sheiham A, Tsakos G, Watt RG: Association of Dental Status and Incident Disability Among an Older Japanese Population. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, (in press).
- Aida J, Kondo K, Kondo K, Watt R, Sheiham A, Tsakos G: Income inequality, social capital and self-rated health and dental status in older Japanese. Social science & medicine, 2011; 73: 1561-1568.
- Aida J, Kondo K, Yamamoto T, Hirai H, Nakade M, Osaka K, Sheiham A, Tsakos G, Watt R. Oral health and cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory mortality of Japanese. Journal of Dental Research 2011; 90: 1129-1135.
- Aida J, Kondo K, Hirai H, Subramanian SV, Murata C, Kondo N, Ichida Y, Shirai K, Osaka K. Assessing the association between all-cause mortality and multiple aspects of individual social capital among the older Japanese. BMC Public Health 2011;11(1):499.
- Wakaguri S, Aida J, Osaka K, Morita M, Ando Y. Association between Caregiver Behaviours to Prevent Vertical Transmission and Dental Caries in Their 3-Year-Old Children. Caries Res 2011;45(3):281-286.
- Aida J, Kuriyama S, Ohmori-Matsuda K, Hozawa A, Osaka K, Tsuji I. The association between neighborhood social capital and self-reported dentate status in elderly Japanese - The Ohsaki Cohort 2006 Study. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 2011;39(3):239-249.
- Aida J, Morita M, Akhter R, Aoyama H, Masui M, Ando Y. Relationships between patient characteristics and reasons for tooth extraction in Japan. Community Dent Health 26(2):104-109.2009
- Aida J, Hanibuchi T, Nakade M, Hirai H, Osaka K, Kondo K. The different effects of vertical social capital and horizontal social capital on dental status: a multilevel analysis. Soc Sci Med 69(4):512-518.2009