Current status of education and research on public health nutrition in Japan: comparison with South Korea, Taiwan, and mainland China

Table 1 Number of colleges and universities surveyed in this study

	Japan		South Korea		Taiwan		China^†
	n	%^‡	n	%^‡	n	%^‡	n	%^‡
Total number of the colleges and universities	771		211		149		93
National schools	86	11	45	21	47	32	70	75
Public schools	88	11	1	1	1	1	23	25
Private schools	597	77	165	78	101	68	0	0
Total number of the colleges and universities with a PHN program^§	128		7		18		24^¶
National schools	5	4	1	14	1	6	14	58
Public schools	18	14	0	0	0	0	10	42
Private schools	105	82	6	86	17	94	0	0

^†Only colleges and universities whose school website, email address, or phone number was available, and those designated in “Project 211” were investigated in this study
^‡Some percentages do not total 100 because of rounding
^§A PHN program was defined as a department requiring a class in which the class name included words that meant “public health nutrition” or “community nutrition” in the language of the respective country or region. In China, the class named “nutrition and food safety” or “food and nutrition” were also defined as PHN classes
^¶Eighteen colleges or universities were not included because information on whether or not PHN classes were compulsory was not available

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