Profile

 

●Research Fields 

Social epidemiology,
Health and social services policy & management,
Rehabilitation medicine (Board-certificated Physiatrist)

 

●Career : Positions and Employment

1983 Graduate from School of medicine, Chiba University
1983-1985 Resident, Funabashi Futawa Hospital, Chiba, Japan
1985-1986 Resident, Rehabilitation center, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
1987-1992 Fellow, Department of rehabilitation medicine, Funabashi Futawa Hospital, Chiba, Japan
1992-1997 Director, Department of rehabilitation medicine, Funabashi Futawa Hospital, Chiba Japan
1997-2003 Associate professor, Nihon Fukushi University, Aichi, Japan
2000-2001 Visiting researcher fellow, University of Kent at Canterbury, Kent, UK
2003- Professor, Nihon Fukushi University, Aichi, Japan
2007-2009 Dean, Graduate School of Social Welfare, Nihon Fukushi University, Aichi, Japan
2009- Dean of the Graduate School of Health and Social Services Management and Director of the Center for
　　　　 well-being and Society, Nihon Fukushi University, Aichi, Japan

 

●Positions and Honors

Other Experience and Professional Memberships
　 1984- Member, Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine
　 1997- Member, Japan Public Health Association
　 2009- Advisory editor, Social Science & Medicine
　 2010- Trustee, The Health Care Science Institute
Honors
　 2006 Award, The Society for the Study of Social Policy, Japan

 

●Publications

Book

• Katsunori Kondo:“Beyond ‘healthcare crises’ - Prospects of health and long-term care in the UK and Japan”, Igaku-Shoin, 2012

• K. Kondo ed. (2010) Health Inequalities in Japan: An Empirical Study of the Older People.Trans Pacific Press,Melbourne ISBN-10: 192090171X ISBN-13: 978-1920901714

• Katsunori Kondo:“Live through Health Gap Society”, Asahi Newspaper Publisher 2010 (in Japanese)

• Katsunori Kondo, ed:“Manual for Doctor on duty, 13 th ed.”, editor, Ishiyaku Publishers,INC , 2010 (in Japanese)

• Katsunori Kondo: “Manual for Clinical Physician, 4th ed.”, editor, Ishiyaku Publishers,INC , 2008 (in Japanese)

• Katsunori Kondo, ed: “Exploring ‘Inequalities in Health’ : A large-scale social epidemiological survey for care　prevention in Japan.” editor, Igaku-Shoin , 2007 (in Japanese)

• Katsunori Kondo: “Health and Social Service management - toward development of welfare society” Minerva-shobo , 2007 (in Japanese)

• Katsunori Kondo, ed: “ Health and Social Disparity in Japan ”, joint work , Trans Pacific Press , 2006

• Katsunori Kondo, ed:“Stroke Rehabilitation: from early rehabilitation to care management, 2nd ed. ”, editor,Ishiyaku　Publishers,INC , 2006 (in Japanese)

•  Katsunori Kondo:“Health Gap Society - what undermining mental health and society? ”, Igaku-hoin,2005,awarded by The Society for the Study of Social Policy. (in Japanese)

• Katsunori Kondo: “Beyond ‘The Era of Cost Containment’ - Reforms of health and social services in the UK ”Igaku-shoin, 2004 (in Japanese)

 

Paper

• 　Jun Aida,　Katsunori Kondo, et al: Association of Dental Status and Incident Disability Among an OlderJapanese Population. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 60（2）: 338-43，2012

• 　Hanibuchi T, Kondo K, et al: Does walkable mean sociable? Neighborhood determinants of social capital among older adults in Japan. Health & Place 18（2）: 229-39，2012

• 　Jun Aida, Katsunori Kondo, et al: Income inequality, social capital and self-rated health and dental status in older Japanese. Social science & medicine 73（10）: 1561-8，2011

• 　Tomoya Hanibuchi, et al (5/5) : Neighborhood built environment and physical activity of Japanese older adults: results from the Aichi Gerontological Evaluation Study (AGES). BMC Public Health 2011, 11: 657，2011

• 　Yusuke Inoue, Seungwon Jeong,Katsunori Kondo: Changes in hospital performance after implementation of pay-for-performance in Japan, Clinical Audit 2011（3）: 17-23，2011

• 　Jun Aida, Katsunori Kondo, Hiroshi Hirai, S v Subramanian, Chiyoe Murata, Naoki Kondo, Yukinobu Ichida, Kokoro Shirai and Ken Osaka: Assessing the association between all-cause mortality and multiple aspects of individual social capital among the older Japanese. BMC Public Health 11(1):499, 2011.6　

• 　Jun Aida, Katsunori Kondo, Tatsuo Yamamoto, Hiroshi Hirai, Miyo Nakade, Ken Osaka, Aubrey Sheiham, Georgios Tsakos, Richard G. Watt: Oral health and cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory mortality of Japanese. Journal of Dental Research，2011

• 　Hanibuchi, T., Aida, J., Nakade, M., Hirai, H. & Kondo, K.： Geographical accessibility to dental care in the Japanese elderly. Community Dental Health 28(2):128-135, 2011

• 　Akihiro Nishi, Katsunori Kondo, Hiroshi Hirai, Ichiro Kwachi:Cohort Profile:The AGES 2003 Cohort Study in Aichi, Japan,J Epidemiol 21,151-157, 2011

• Seungwon Jeong,Katsunori Kondo, Nariaki Shiraishi, Yusuke Inoue: An evaluation of the quality of post-stroke rehabilitation in Japan, Clinical Audit(20):59-66, 2010

• Chiyoe Murata, Tetsuji Yamada, Chia-Ching Chen, Toshiyuki Ojima, Hiroshi Hirai and Katsunori　Kondo：Barriers to Health Care among the Elderly in Japa, Internationnal　Journal of　Environmental Research and Public Health7（4）：1330-1341，2010　

•   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

•   Ichida Y, Kondo K, Hirai H, Hanibuchi T, Yoshikawa G, Murata C: Social capital, income inequality　and self-rated health in Chita peninsula, Japan: a multilevel analysis of older people in 25　communities. Soc Sci Med 69: 489-499, 2009

•   Kondo N, Kawachi I, Hirai H, Kondo K, S V Subramanian, Hanibuchi T, Yamagata Z:Relative　deprivation and incident functional disability among older Japanese woman and men :prospective　cohort study.Journal of epidemiology and Community Health 63 : 461-469，2009　

•   Katsunori Kondo：Social relationship and health. Kawakami N, et al.(eds): Health and Social　Disparity－Japan and Beyond : 182-207，Trans Pacific Press，Melbourne，2009

•   Chiyoe Murata, Katsunori Kondo, Hiroshi Hirai, Yukinobu Ichida, Toshiyuki Ojima:Association　between depression and socio-economic Gerontological Evaluation Study(AGES).Health and　Place14:406-414,2008

• Kondo K：Beyond the Era of Cost Containment. Japan Hospitals 27:19-38,2008

• Katsunori Kondo　ed. “Exploring ‘Inequalities in Health’ : A large-scale social epidemiological survey for care　prevention in Japan.” editor, Igaku-Shoin , 2007 (in Japanese)

 

●Lectures and Talks

• 　　Katsunori Kondo: Prevention policy for healthy aging: The Japanese experience. Conference on Ageing Societies, A Japanese-Swedish Research Cooperation. Sponsored by Uppsala University, The University of Tokyo. 2011.9.21-23. Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden (invited speaker)

• 　Kondo, Katsunori: Health Inequalities in Japan: An Empirical Study of the Older People and Development of a benchmark system. The 7th International Conference on Social Security “The Evolving Social Risks and the Proactive Social Security Strategy”Sep.3-4, 2011 Busan, Korea. (invited speaker)

• 　Katsunori Kondo: Social capital and health in Japan. The University of Ryukyus. International workshop of the regional epidemiology in Okinawa 2011. 2011.7.31 (invited lecture)

• 　Katsunori Kondo: Achievements and Challenges for Health inequalities in Japan. World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Western Pacific. Regional Meeting on Social determinants of Health and Health Equity. Manila

• 　Katsunori Kondo: A half century of the health and long term care in Japan.The 6th International Conference on Social Security, Chengdu, China, 2010. 9. 11-12 .(Invited speaker)

• 　Katsunori Kondo: Current state of regional health disparities and primary cause. Universal Coverage in the 21st Century: Redefining Japan’s Health System. Japan Center for International Exchange, Tokyo, Japan. 2010.9.1 (invited speaker)

• 　Katsunori Kondo: The potential of Social capital. International symposium of social epidemiology in Okinawa 2010. The University of Ryukyus. 2010.7.31 (invited lecture)

• 　Katsunori Kondo : Social capital and well-being - Policy for healthy aging.The 5th International Conference on Social Security - Social Security: From the Past to the Future. Beijing, China, 2009.9.12-13 (invited speaker)

• 　Katsunori Kondo: An Intervention Study on Social Capital in Taketoyo town - AGES Project. Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Social Capital and Health - Cross-National Comparative Perspectives. Cambridge, MA, 2009. 6.19-20 (invited speaker)

• 　Katsunori Kondo: AGES (Aichi Gerontological Evalution Study) Project Overview. Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Social Capital and Health - Cross-National Comparative Perspectives. Cambridge, MA, 2009. 6.19-20 (invited speaker)　　　　

 

●Research Support

　Ongoing Research Support

• Kondo (PI)　KAKENHI 23243070　18/11/11-31/03/16Studies of "Inequality in Well-being" as Social Exclusion and Social CapitalGrants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for thePromotion of ScienceRole: PI

• Kondo (PI)　01/04/09-31/03/13Studies of Social Epidemiology and its applications toward developing Well-being society,A grant of Strategic Research Foundation Grant-aided Project for Private Universities from The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)Role: PI

• Kondo (PI)　H22-Choju-Shitei-008 　01/04/10-31/03/12　A developmental study of benchmark system for comprehensive policy evaluations of long term care insuranceHealth Labour Sciences Research Grant, Comprehensive Research on Aging and Health from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and WelfareRole: PI

　

Completed Research Support

• Kondo (PI)　KAKENHI 18390200　 01/04/06-31/03/09　A large scale cohort study for social epidemiology toward healthy agingGrant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of ScienceRole: PI

• Kondo (PI)　 KAKENHI 14310105 　01/04/02-31/03/05Study on “inequality in health” by socio-economic status.Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of ScienceRole: PI