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 HIROKITokyo Ariake University of Medical and Health Sciences, 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 I
Health informatics I

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

Class styleLecture

Course offeredyear/period

2016/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 7 Information / health literacy: Introduction 1
2 October 14 Information / health literacy: Introduction 2
3 October 21 Quality of life and patient reported outcome in health
4 November 4 Internet and e-health
5 November 11 Evidence-based practice and clinical practice guidelines
6 November 25 November 25Narrative information: the significance and possibility
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8 December 9 Causal inference: An advanced information literacy
9 December 16 Communicating Risks and Benefits
10 January 6 Health literacy and risk communication
11 January 13 Health information and communication on complementary and alternative medicine
12 January 20 Public health informatics
13 January 26 MBTI special workshop (1)14 January 27 MBTI special workshop (2)15 Feburary 3 January 20 Individual presentation and wrap-up
Note: This schedule is subject to change.
[Class requirement]
None (it is desirable to have basic knowledge of epidemiology or evidence-base medicine).
[Method, Point of view, and Attainment levels of Evaluation]
Short report for each lecture 80%, Oral Presentation 20%[Textbook]
The material necessary for the lecture will be provided by lecturers.
[Reference books, etc.]（Reference books）
Baruch Fishhoff, Noel T Brewer, Julie S Downs 『Communicating Risks and Benefits: An Evidence-Based
User's Guide』（US Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration）[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 the school of human health science.
*Please visit KULASIS to find out about office hours.

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