School of Public health, the University of Tokyo
Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo
Medical Library, the University of Tokyo
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Research topics
Nutritional epidemiology
Nutritional epidemiology is a general term for epidemiologic
research which mainly study topics of nutrition and diet. In short, nutritional
epidemiology is “science which serves to conduct and understand the association
between food or dietary habit and health using epidemiologic methodology.”
The Department of Social and Preventive Epidemiology at The University
of Tokyo conducts research on the methodology. In other words, we conduct
research which relate to theory and methodology for method of the dietary
assessment (assessment methodology). By developing a self-administered
diet history questionnaire (DHQ) and a brief-type self-administered diet
history questionnaire (BDHQ), we conduct fundamental research. Based on
the research evidence obtained from the fundamental research, we investigate
association between diet and dietary habits and health issues.
Nutritional epidemiology is as a crucial area of the study
offering scientific evidence in serving practices for disease prevention
or/and treatment. Unfortunately, no school had existed conducting research
and offering education of nutritional epidemiology in Japan. Thus, the
Department of Social and Preventive Epidemiology at The University of Tokyo
has an important role in order to communicate research evidence obtained
in Japan to the world and to communicate research evidence of the world
to Japanese population.
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