Tetsuji Yamada, Professor of Health Economics (B.A., Toyo; M.I.A., Columbia; M.Phil., Ph.D., Graduate School and University Center, CUNY). His research focuses on health economics and related fields including cost effective analysis, pharmaceutical innovation and health outcomes, preventive care, government health care policy, health education and health promotion, alcohol and drug abuse, risky health behavior, and accessibility of health care services and health inequality.

• “Use of Healthcare Services by the Elderly: Comparative Study between Japan and the U.S.A.,” Hamamatsu University School of Medicine funded by Ministry of Education (Japan);

• “An Economic Analysis of Welfare Changes after the Establishment of the Long-term Care Insurance System,” Tsukuba University funded by Ministry of Education (Japan); and

• “Ageing and Healthcare Services in Japan,” Hosei Institute on Aging, Hosei University funded by Ministry of Welfare and Labor (Japan).

He has also started to do joint research with U.S. scholars:

• “Clinical health information technology and nursing services: efficiency of services and quality of services” with Professors Carole-Rae Reed and Joanne Patterson Robinson of Department of Nursing, Rutgers University; and 

• Credibility and Reliance of Cancer Related Information on the Internet and Colorectal Cancer Screening,” with Professor Chia-Ching Chen of School of Public Health, New York Medical College.
  

“Healthcare Services Accessibility of Children in the USA,” Applied Economics, Vol.40, No.8, (forthcoming, 2008).

“Children with Special Healthcare Needs and Unmet Healthcare Needs under the State Children Health Insurance Program,” Pravartak – Journal of Insurance and Risk Management,” Special Anniversary Health Issue, Vol.3, No.1, pp.22-46, 2007.

“Behavioral Analysis of Community-based Formal Home Care, Informal Care and Nursing Home Care in Japan,” The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance and Issues and Practice, Vol.31, No.4, pp.600-632, 2006. 

“Economic Evaluation for Relapse Prevention of Substance Users: Treatment Settings and Healthcare Policy,” in Substance Use: Individual Behavior, Social Interaction, Markets and Politics (Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research 16), Elsevier Science, Vol.16, No.4, pp.431-450, 2005.

"Overwork of Employees and Their Health in Japan," in Change in Economic Structure and Labor Market, Koyou Nouryoku Kaihatsu Kikou, Ch.7, pp.176-200, 2004.

"A Study of Time Allocation of Japanese Households", in International Library of Critical Writings in Economics in Time in Economic Theory, Edward Elgar Publishing, U.K., Vol.III, Ch.16, pp.332-346, 2004.

"The Demand for Health Check-ups under Uncertainty", in Labor Markets and Firm Benefit Policies in Japan and the United States, University of Chicago Press for the NBER, Ch. 10, pp.267-314, 2003.

"Equity in the Distribution of Health Care Utilization: Assessing the Urban Health Insurance Reform in China", Social Science & Medicine, Vol.55, No.10, pp.1779-1794, 2002.

"Hospital Services under the National Health Insurance System: A Transition from Fee-for-service to Capitation System" in The Economics of Health Care in Asia-Pacific Countries, Edward Elgar Publishing, Ch.11, pp.213-238, 2001.

“Japanese Health Care Services and Asymmetric Information,” International Political Economy, Vol.8, pp.1-19, 2001.

"Differentials in the Demand for Health Check-up" in the Quarterly of Social Security Research, Vol.36, No.3, pp.391-422, 2000.

"Determinants of Social Violence among the Youth and Their Risky Health Behavior: Policy Implications" in Violence in Health, WHO Document, pp.290-303, 2000.

RECENT DISCUSSION PAPERS:

“Healthcare Needs for Children under the Different State Children’s Health Insurance Programs,” Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences (IPPS), Discussion Paper Series, No.1199, University of Tsukuba, December 2007, pp.1-36.

“Why is Employee’s Overwork Prevalent in Japan, Despite the Adverse Effects on Health?" Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences (IPPS), Discussion Paper Series, No.1108, University of Tsukuba, March 2005, pp.1-28.

“Japanese Internal Labor Market: Overwork of Employees and Their Health,” Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences (IPPS), Discussion Paper Series, No.1077, University of Tsukuba, February 2004, pp.1-35.

“Health Services Accessibility of Children in the USA,” Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences (IPPS), Discussion Paper Series, No.1052, University of Tsukuba, August 2003, pp.1-19.

“Regulated Drug Pricing and Hospital Efficiency in Japan,” Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences (IPPS), Discussion Paper Series, No.1014, University of Tsukuba, December 2002, pp.1-36.

“Differential in the Demand for Health Check-up in Japan,” Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences (IPPS), Discussion Paper Series, No.876, University of Tsukuba, July 2000, pp.1-44.

“Health Communication and Access Disparities of Pre- and Post-retirement Patients,” the 2nd Biennial Conference of the American Society of Health Economists, Duke University, Durham, U.S.A., June 2008.

“Healthcare Service Accessibility for Children and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program,” the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS), San Diego, December 2007.

 “Credibility and Reliance of Cancer Related Information on the Internet and Colorectal Cancer Screening,” APHA 135th Annual Meeting, American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C., November 2007.

“The Long-term Care Insurance System in Japan and its Effects on the Welfare,” International Health Economics Association, iHEA 6th World Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2007.

“Cancer Related Information on the Internet and Colorectal Cancer Screening,” The Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics, New York, May 2007.

“Health and Income Inequality under National Health Insurance System: Path Analysis Approach,” Nordic Health Economists Study Group, Copenhagen, August 2006.

“Substance Abuse Treatment for the Youth with Mental Health Problems,” ISPER/SABE CONGRESS: Behavioral Economics and Economic Psychology, University Paris, France, July 2006.

“Psycho-Social Behavioral Determinants of Colorectal Cancer Screening,” ISPER/SABE CONGRESS: Behavioral Economics and Economic Psychology, University Paris, France, July 2006.

“The Effect of Substance Use Treatment with and without Psychological/Mental Health,” American Society of Health Economists 2006 (ASHE 2006), Madison, WI, June 2006.

“Health Behavioral Analysis of Colorectal Cancer Screening,” American Society of Health Economists 2006 (ASHE 2006), Madison, WI, June 2006.

“Pharmaceutical Price Control, Pharmaceutical Innovation, and Health Durability,” Southern Economic Association Conference, 75th Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., November 2005.

“Children with Special Healthcare Needs and Unmet Healthcare Needs under SCHIP Single, SCHIP Combination, and SCHIP Medicare Expansion Program,” International Health Economics Association, University of Barcelona, Spain, July 2005.

“A Comparative Analysis of Welfare Changes after the Long-term Care Insurance System in Japan in 2000,” International Health Economics Association, University of Barcelona, Spain, July 2005.

“Pharmaceutical Prices, Deregulation, and Innovation under the NHI: The Case of Japan,” International Conference on Pharmaceutical Innovation, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2005.