Graduate School of Medicine
Professor,NAKAYAMA TAKEO
Graduate School of Medicine
Senior Lecturer,TAKAHASHI YOSHIMITSU

Course title<English>Part-time Lecturer,MIYAZAKI KIKUKOOkayama University Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Professor
TSUDA TOSHIHIDE
AffiliatedDaito Bunka University, Professor,
department,
Job title,Name SUGIMORI HIROKI
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Professor
TSUTANI KIICHIRO
Japan MBTI Association, Director
SONODA YUKI
Japan Internet Medical Association
MITANI HIROAKICenter for Cancer Control and Information Services, Director
WAKAO FUMIHIKO

健康情報学
Health Informatics

Grade alloted Professional degree students Number of credits 2
Day/period Fri.2

Class styleLecture

Course offeredyear/period

2015/Second semester

Language Japanese and English[Outline and Purpose of the Course]This course comprises systematic lectures on health / medical information, collection, accumulation,transmission, retrieval and appraisal of data and knowledge. Being based on epidemiology and EBM,
methods of utilizing information about health and medicine via medical literature, mass media or internet.
Health literacy, circulation of information and information ethics including protection of individual
information will be also addressed. To assess the quality of healthcare-related website, the e-health code
version 2 developed by the Japan Internet Medical Association will be introduced. Moreover, the workshopof the MBTI , which is very popular among healthcare professionals in the US and western countries,
will be held to understand intra and inter personal pattern of information recognition and processing, andcommunication.
[Course Goals]
・Being based on knowledge of epidemiology and EBM, to acquire skills of utilizing various health /medical information.
・To be capable of collecting and appraising health information via mass media or internet and of utilizingthem as materials for decision making, problem solving and promoting communication.
・To understand intra and inter personal pattern of information recognition and processing, andcommunication in terms of the MBTI .
[Course Schedule and Contents]
1 October 2
Information / health literacy: Introduction 1
2 October 9
Information / health literacy: Introduction 2
3 October 16
e-health 1
4 October 23
e-health 25 October 30
Public health and health informatics
6 November 13 Benefit and risk communication: with special reference to pharmaceutical productsContinue to 健康情報学(2)↓↓↓− 251 −健康情報学(2)7 November 20 Health communication and health literacy
8 November 27 Evidence-based practice and clinical practice guidelines
9 December 4
Privacy protection and information ethics
10 December 11 Narrative information and patient-reported outcome in healthcare
11 December 18 Health information and communication on complementary and alternative medicine
12 January 8 Causal inference: An advanced information literacy
13 Feburary 4
MBTI special workshop (1)14 Feburary 5
MBTI special workshop (2)15 February 12 Individual presentation and wrap-up
Note: This schedule is subject to change.
[Class requirement]
None[Method, Point of view, and Attainment levels of Evaluation]
Short report for each lecture 80%, Oral Presentation 20%[Textbook]Nothing particular[Reference books, etc.]（Reference books）
They will be shown in the course[Regarding studies out of class (preparation and review)]
Rather than spending more time on your preparation, please put more energy into the review.
（Others (office hour, etc.) ）Information is defined as those which reduce uncertainty . This course provides students with theopportunity to consider how to develop, transmit and utilize information appropriately. Moreover, the special
workshop of the MBTI must benefit students to widen perspectives of personal pattern of information
recognition, processing and communication.
This course is open to graduate students with school of human health science.
*Please visit KULASIS to find out about office hours.

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