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

Shinozaki, Nana; Wang, Han-Chieh; Yuan, Xiaoyi; Li, Tianyu; Asano, Kana; Kobayashi, Satomi; Sasaki, Satoshi

doi:10.1186/s40795-019-0275-x

Table 3 Number of PHN-related articles^† published from 2007 to 2016

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

	First author								Corresponding author
	Japan		South Korea		Taiwan		China		Japan		South Korea		Taiwan		China
	n	%^‡	n	%^‡	n	%^‡	n	%^‡	n	%^‡	n	%^‡	n	%^‡	n^§	%^‡
Total number of articles	41		26		21		86		42		26		21		82
Affiliated institutions
Educational institution^¶	33		13		13		37		33		13		13		36.3
With PHN program^#	10	24	0	0	5	25	26	30	9	21	0	0	4	19	27.3	33
Without PHN program	23	56	13	50	7	35	4	5	24	57	13	50	9	43	4.0	5
Unknown^††	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	5.0	6
Hospital^‡‡	1	2	9	35	3	15	16	19	1	2	9	35	2	10	12.2	15
Research institute^§§	7	17	4	15	4	20	22	26	8	19	4	15	6	29	25.5	31
Other^¶¶	0	0	0	0	1	5	11	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	8.0	10
No. of articles per PHN program^##	0.3		3.7		1.2		2.7		0.3		3.7		1.2		2.6

^†Articles written by a first or a corresponding author who belonged to a domestic institution of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, or China, and published in Public Health Nutrition
^‡Some percentages do not total 100 because of rounding
^§Values include the decimal point because the number of articles written by plural corresponding authors was calculated by distributing the reciprocal of the number of corresponding authors of the article to each institution
^¶College, university and graduate school
^#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. A graduate school which has a PHN program at its affiliated department was regarded as an educational institution with a PHN program
^††Educational institutions whose school website could not be accessed from Japan or whose phone number was unavailable
^‡‡Hospital included university hospitals
^§§Research institute included research centers of the university
^¶¶Other institutions included companies, international organizations, and centers for disease control and prevention
^##No. of articles per PHN program = the total number of articles that were written by the first or corresponding author who belonged to each domestic institution, published in Public Health Nutrition from 2007 to 2016/number of PHN programs in each country or region

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