Paper of the Year

2023

• Yuta Yokokawa
• Division of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine,Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
  Tohoku University Hospital Emergency Center
• “How Long Would You Like to Live? A 25-year Prospective Observation of the Association Between Desired Longevity and Mortality”
• DOI：https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20210493

2022

• Takahiro Sanada
• Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science
• “Serologic Survey of IgG Against SARS-CoV-2 Among Hospital Visitors Without a History of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Tokyo, 2020–2021”
• DOI：https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20210324

2021

• Yosuke Inoue
• Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, National Center for Global Health and Medicine
• “Loss of Working Life Years Due to Mortality, Sickness Absence, or Ill-health Retirement: A Comprehensive Approach to Estimating Disease Burden in the Workplace”
• DOI：https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20190332

2020

• Atsushi Hozawa
• Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization
• “Association Between Body Mass Index and All-Cause Death in Japanese Population: Pooled Individual Participant Data Analysis of 13 Cohort Studies”
• DOI：https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20180124

2019

• Hirokazu Tanaka
• Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
• “Geographic Access to Cancer Treatment in Japan: Results From a Combined Dataset of the Patient Survey and the Survey of Medical Institutions in 2011”
• DOI：https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20170051

2018

• Kosuke Kiyohara
• Department of Public Health, Tokyo Women’s Medical University  
• "Epidemiology of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Due to Suffocation Focusing on Suffocation Due to Japanese Rice Cake: A Population-Based Observational Study From the Utstein Osaka Project"
• DOI：https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20160179

2017

• Takahiro Nakamura
• Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Medicine, Toho University
• "Asian Dust and Pediatric Emergency Department Visits Due to Bronchial Asthma and Respiratory Diseases in Nagasaki, Japan"  
• DOI：https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20150309

2016

• Takahiro Tabuchi
• Center for Cancer Control and Statistics, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases
• “Tobacco Price Increase and Smoking Cessation in Japan, a Developed Country With Affordable Tobacco: A National Population-Based Observational Study”
• DOI：https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20140183

2015

• Yutaka Ueda
• Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine
• “Evaluation of a Free-Coupon Program for Cervical Cancer Screening Among the Young: A Nationally Funded Program Conducted by a Local Government in Japan”
• DOI：https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20140080

2014

• Chris Fook Sheng Ng
• Environmental Epidemiology Section, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute for Environmental Studies  
• “Sociogeographic Variation in the Effects of Heat and Cold on Daily Mortality in Japan”
• DOI：https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20130051

2013

• Karri Silventoinen
• Population Research Unit, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki
• “Occupational Class Differences in Body Mass Index and Weight Gain in Japan and Finland”
• DOI：https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20130023