Activity

Health & Medicine Group

Introduction of our Researchers

Main Researchers

 Youichi Kurozawa
[Division of Health Administration and Promotion, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University; Professor]
Subdivision: Arid land health and medicine, Occupational Medicine

 
 Akinori Shimada
[Department of Veterinary Pathology, Tottori University; Professor]
Subdivision: Veterinary Pathology, Environmental Veterinary Pathology

 
 Atsushi Koike
[Faculty of Engineering, Tottori University; Associate Professor]
Subdivision: Socio Economic Analysis, Project Evaluation

 

Support Researchers

 Shinji Otani
[Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University; Visiting Associate Professor, Hino Hospital; Deputy Director]
Subdivision: Arid land health and medicine, Clinical surgery

 



Activities of our group (Research purpose and expected achivements)

1. Development of arid land health and medicine
2. Effects of Asian dust events on health
(1) Pathological study of the harmful effects of air pollutant including yellow dusts and nano particles on the health of animals
(2) Effects of Asian dust events on human health in Japan and Mongolia
3. Monitoring ecological health through disease monitoring of a variety of animals including livestock and wildlife animals in Mongolia
4. Development of arid land Social Science
5. Agricultural efficiency Analysis in arid land



Research achivements

Health survey in Mongolia


Disease monitoring of a variety of animals including livestock and wildlife animals in Mongolia


Effects of Asian dust events on human health in Japan

Time-series hourly suspended particulate matter (SPM) levels, the overall symptom scores, and daily pollen count in February 2009 (n=52, Yonago).
Tottori university Arid Land Research Center