Activity

The first Japan-Korea-Taiwan Joint Epidemiology Seminar "Health-related database: utilization for epidemiological research"

Co-hosted by the Japan Epidemiological Association (JEA), the Korean Society of Epidemiology (KSE), and the Taiwan Epidemiology Association (TEA)
Date: August 21, 2017
Venue: The 21st World Congress of Epidemiology, Saitama, Japan
WCE2017 Website

Moderators:
Manami Inoue (Chair, International Exchange Committee, Japan Epidemiological Association / Center for Public Health Sciences, National Cancer Center, Japan)
Byung Chul Chun (The Chair of International Affair Committee, Korean Society of Epidemiology / Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Korea University Medical College, Repablic of Korea)
Chen-Yang Shen (President, Taiwan Epidemiology Association / Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

• National health insurance databases in Japan
  Hideo Yasunaga (Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Economics, School of Public Health, The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• The Scope and Contents of Korean National Health Insurance Data for Health Research
  Jong Heon Park (Big Data Operation Center, National Health Insurance Service, Korea)
• Experiences for Big Data Analysis of Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database and Future Perspectives
  Pau-Chung Chen (Professor and Director, Institute of Occupational and Industrial Hygiene, National Taiwan University,Taiwan)
• Big data research in preventing digestive cancers
  Chun-Ying Wu (‌Visiting Staff, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan)
• Epidemiologic Studies of Cardiovascular Disease using National Health Insurance Database
  Hyeon Chang Kim (Department of Preventive Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea)
• Monitoring health inequalities using government statistics in Japan: The current status and future challenge
  Yuri Ito (Cancer Control Center, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan)