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

Table 2 Fields of education of PHN programs^† classified by the official classification methods

Japan			South Korea			Taiwan			China^‡
Field of education^§	n^¶	%^♯	Field of education^§	n	%	Field of education	n	%	Field of education^§	n	%
Home economics	89.9	66	Natural science	4	57	Health and welfare	15	83	Medical science	23	72
Health (not medical science or dentistry)	24.1	18	Medical science and pharmacy	3	43	Agriculture	2	11	Engineering	9	28
Unspecified	10.9	8	Social Science	0	0	Education	1	6	Philosophy	0	0
Agriculture	9.2	7	Arts and physical education	0	0	Humanities and arts	0	0	Economics	0	0
Education	2.3	2	Humanities	0	0	Social sciences, business and law	0	0	History	0	0
Humanities	0.3	0	Engineering	0	0	Science	0	0	Law	0	0
Social science	0.3	0	Education	0	0	Engineering, manufacturing and construction	0	0	Education	0	0
Natural science	0.0	0				Services	0	0	Literature	0	0
Engineering	0.0	0				Unspecified	0	0	Natural science	0	0
Health (medical science & dentistry)	0.0	0							Agriculture	0	0
Merchant marine	0.0	0							Management and administration	0	0
Arts	0.0	0							Arts	0	0
Total	137	100	Total	7	100	Total	18	100	Total	32	100

^†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
^‡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
^§The name of the field was translated by the authors
^¶Values are represented including the decimal point because some departments were categorized into overlapping plurality of fields of education under the Japanese classification method. Numbers for these were calculated by distributing the reciprocal of the number of overlapping fields to the corresponding fields
^♯The percentage does not total 100 because of rounding

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