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Table 4 Number of affiliated institutions of authors who published PHN-related articles 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 affiliated institutions

24

 

19

 

15

 

53

 

24

 

21

 

11

 

49

 

 Educational institution§

18

 

9

 

10

 

19

 

18

 

11

 

8

 

17

 

 With PHN program

4

17

0

0

4

27

11

21

5

21

0

0

3

27

10

20

 Without PHN program

14

58

9

47

6

40

4

8

13

54

11

52

5

46

4

8

 Unknown#

0

0

0

0

0

0

4

8

0

0

0

0

0

0

3

6

Hospital††

1

4

6

32

3

20

15

28

1

4

6

29

2

18

12

25

Research institute‡‡

5

21

4

21

1

7

10

19

5

21

4

19

1

9

14

29

Other§§

0

0

0

0

1

7

9

17

0

0

0

0

0

0

6

12

  1. Affiliated institutions of first or corresponding authors who belonged to a domestic institution of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, or China, and published an article in Public Health Nutrition. The number of each type of institution was calculated regardless of the number of articles they have published. Affiliated institutions were classified by the name equivalent to the faculty or graduate school
  2. Some percentages do not total 100 because of rounding
  3. §College, university and graduate school
  4. 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
  5. #Educational institutions whose school website could not be accessed from Japan or whose phone number was unavailable
  6. ††Hospital includes university hospitals
  7. ‡‡Research institute includes research centers of a university
  8. §§Other institutions include companies, international organizations, and centers for disease control and prevention